Back for more commentary with Christine Majerus here in Luxembourg today. Join us at 14:30 local time. www.elsy-jacobs.lu

Really great feature by @owenrogers382.bsky.social

So, I'm off to Luxembourg to commentate on the two Festival Elsy Jacobs races this weekend. Christine Majerus will be alongside me making sense of the rubbish I talk, so please watch along. www.elsy-jacobs.lu

“We don’t understand how our perfectly sane policy of handing guns to anyone who wants them can lead to gun-related incidents like this one” says NRA From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Just had a massive panic. Checking my travel details I realised my flight to Luxembourg was booked for the wrong days. Luckily I was looking at the wrong year. Save to say, I'll be back commentating on the Festival Elsy Jacobs races this weekend.

If Trump raises Falklands with the King, the reply should simply be, “do tell me about Guam and Saipan.”

40 minutes until the women's race coverage starts. That's great.

I'd love to know Vollering's watts per kilo up that climb. Bonkers.

ASO have messed up their women's race coverage this year. 34km today, I think it was 35 at Paris-Roubaix. Poor.

I reckon Wallonia on a sunny spring day is just about the most beautiful place I've been. And the Mur de Huy is one of the hardest roads I've ridden. And I love La Flèche Wallone.

Beautiful day, not a cloud to be seen, office door open and I can hear the first cuckoo of the year.

Been for a great bike ride and am overwhelmed with post-exercise euphoria. Not been like this for years, caught myself dancing the bathroom to Born Of Frustration by James.

Want a random Classics fact? We all know the Schelde (or Scheldt) river features in the Belgian classics, it runs from Antwerp through Oudenaarde, but then it extends into France, through Denain, where it's crossed by the Paris-Roubaix route. At about 160 for the men and twice by the women.

This is absolutely brilliant, the perfect way to start my day.

Forgive my lack of excitement, but driving down the M4 doesn't mean you've been to Windsor any more than flying round the moon means you've been to the moon.

The day before the UAE Tour started Lorena Wiebes said this to me. "There will be a point that I will be beaten in a sprint and probably the media thinks a lot about that, but then it's for me just focus on the good things and keep on improving and keep on being the best version that I can be."

Negotibate or nank: when a person or entity negotiates with itself.

After she won the Jebel Hafeet stage at the UAE Tour Women, I asked Elisa Longo Borghini if she panicked when others started attacking early on the climb. "Why should you panic, it's just a bike race," she replied. At the time I didn't know she'd lost a friend before the race.

I hope Marianne Vos is OK. I've met her dad, Henk, many times and he's a friendly, thoughtful, helpful man and I hope he gets over whatever the problem is.

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One. Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers. In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots.

Larry was a great bloke, and a stalwart of British domestic racing. He cared greatly and worked so hard to promote the sport. Thoughts with his family and friends.

If the participants' haircuts were a measure how much I liked a sport I'd never watch another game of rugby.

As I was saying...

It's so final when someone leaves a WhatsApp group.

Vaporised, Epic Fury. They talk like 12 year-old boys, glorying in people's deaths. A fight is sadly sometimes necessary to defend oneself, but success is cause only for relief, never glory or boastfulness.

Only an epic twat would call a military operation 'Epic Fury'.

I don't read enough books but these two were brilliant, interesting, even humbling, both with a Glasgow link. Hopefully I'll hear @pippayork.bsky.social talking about a bike race soon and see Justin Currie with @delamitri.bsky.social later this year.

Along with Silent Witness, which is appalling through its earnest inaccuracy.

Gladiators is among the worst things I've ever seen on TV.

Peak UCI.

I hope Andy likes maxpax coffee, microwave meals and old blankets.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

I love the way TNT put ads in their cycling coverage just at the most interesting moments. I can only assume it's an effort at corporate suicide.

Even he knows it's a fairy tale.

I had no idea what my taxi driver taking me to Abu Dhabi airport was saying. The same the world over.

Basically the rule is that organisers can't invite Conti teams to WT events unless they just want to and then they can

Barbara Guarischi describing her lead out is one of the highlights of this race for me. www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...

Gotta remember what a privilege it is not only to be write about about cycling but also to be at races talking to the riders. Especially when it’s freezing cold and raining at home.

Why doesn't Starmer come out and say Mandelson was a left field choice because of the lunatic in the White House.

A British Bill of Rights. So it won't apply in Northern Ireland?

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Just tried to book a train to Heathrow Airport in London. It's cheaper to drive and park, which should be a shock but it's not.

A thread (no one will read) on the UK Government's proposed policing changes. Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood said there is an "epidemic" of crime in the UK. Not true. The Crime Survey is said to be the most accurate measure of crime and states all main types of crime except fraud are down.

It's great being able to watch races from the off, but 40 minutes of coverage before the flag drops is too much, unless we have something else to watch like The Breakaway before the big races.

When I was a police officer I went to a burglary at a masonic lodge. While the keyholder showed me round my colleague found many police officer's names in the visitor book. Police officers must not be allowed to be members of a secret club, which puts fellow members ahead of all else.

@newsagents.bsky.social Loving your coverage but it's a sickening irony when your piece on Minneapolis deportations is followed by an ad for travel to America. I won't be going, thanks.

Current state of the nation

If anyone else here is a drummer, Drum Shack in London are brilliant.

Could the level in women's races drop as a result of the Women's WorldTour regulation changes? www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...