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Connecting Ben Stokes and Edward Snowden
Ben Stokes
English international cricketer
Faced with an incisive Australian bowling attack and Bradmanesque batting contribution from Steve Smith, Stokes played a pivotal role in enabling England ultimately to draw the 2019 Ashes series 2–2 (although Australia thereby retained the urn).
Don Bradman
Almost 50 years after his retirement as a Test player, in 1997, Prime Minister John Howard of Australia called him the "greatest living Australian".
The service was attended by a host of former and current Test cricketers, as well as Australia's then prime minister, John Howard, leader of the opposition Kim Beazley and former prime minister Bob Hawke.
John Howard
Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007
Howard supported the Bush administration's 2007 surge strategy in Iraq, and criticised Democrat US presidential candidate Barack Obama for calling for a complete withdrawal of Coalition troops by March 2008.
Barack Obama
In 2011, Obama signed a four-year renewal of the Patriot Act. Following the 2013 global surveillance disclosures by whistleblowerEdward Snowden, Obama condemned the leak as unpatriotic, but called for increased restrictions on the NSA to address violations of privacy.
Ben Stokes
English international cricketer
Stokes was praised for his batting efforts on a typical fast and bouncy Waca surface against hostile fast bowling of Mitchell Johnson at height of his bowling powers. '' The Guardian'' described Stokes WACA century as ''The only welcome positive for the future''.
John McCain
* Sean Wilentz: [https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-McCain ''John McCain.'' ] In: ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', February 15, 2018
Sean Wilentz
American historian
In January 2014, Wilentz took issue with those involved in the 2013 NSA leaks, in particular Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and Julian Assange.
Ben Stokes
English international cricketer
In England's first innings of the second test in Cape Town, Stokes arrived at the crease with England 167–4, facing a hat-trick ball from Kagiso Rabada.
Kagiso Rabada
South African cricketer (born 1995)
Following his performance in the match, Rabada became top ranked Test bowler in the world as per the ICC Test bowler rankings displacing England bowler James Anderson.
This performance earned him top spot in ICC Test bowler rankings with 902 points, standing 15 points above James Anderson.
James Anderson (cricketer)
English cricketer
Alongside former cricketer Graeme Swann and BBC Radio 1 radio presenter Greg James, Anderson hosted a cricket-themed radio show on BBC Radio 5 Live, "Not Just Cricket".
Since the Ashes Tour of Australia in the 2017-18, Anderson has been an integral part of the award-winning British podcast "Tailenders" a loosely cricket based podcast alongside BBC presenter, Greg James, and former Macabee guitarist, Felix White.
Greg James
British author, broadcaster, comedian, presenter and executive producer
On 1 June 2018, James announced his engagement to his girlfriend Bella Mackie, the daughter of newspaper editor Alan Rusbridger.
Alan Rusbridger
Newspaper journalist and editor
As editor-in-chief, in August 2013 Rusbridger took the decision to destroy hard drives containing information leaked to '' The Guardian'' by Edward Snowden, rather than comply with a government demand to hand over the data.
Ben Stokes
English international cricketer
He then batted in the super over with Jos Buttler, which again was a tie, but England won the match on the boundary countback rule then in place.
Theresa May
The two candidates with the fewest votes, Liam Fox and Stephen Crabb, immediately announced their support for May.
The early appointments were interpreted both as an effort to reunite the Conservative Party in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU and as "a shift to the right," according to ''The Guardian''. ITV's Political Editor Robert Peston commented: "Her rhetoric is more left-wing than Cameron's was, her cabinet is more right-wing than his was." Although May had supported remaining in the EU, she appointed several of the most prominent advocates of Brexit to key Cabinet positions responsible for negotiating the United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union, including Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary, David Davis as Brexit Secretary, and Liam Fox as International Trade Secretary, the latter two being new positions.
Liam Fox
British politician (born 1961)
In January 2015, Fox published a video on YouTube detailing his opinions and criticism of Edward Snowden.
When Edward Snowden stole files and took them with him to China and then Russia, some 58,000 files came from GCHQ, information that had played a vital role in preventing terrorist outrages in Britain, over the past decade and longer.
