Labour could bring back our water into public hands but they care more about investors than they do about you

Prof. Robert Pape: "I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".

Glenwood Springs Co. July 1984. photo by Mark Williams. I was apparently working on a song that became Maps & Legends. Thanks Mark!!

Yet another reason for Labour voters to switch their allegiance to Green

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who remembers this guy? 💭 Excellent piece by @cmbreports.bsky.social

Work no longer pays - I'm sure this is generally true, but plumbers do very nicely, don't they? Mine certainly does! 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Guys in the gym who at the end of each set drop the weights with a loud bang for everyone to enjoy. Yeah, those guys

Luke Grenfell-Shaw was 24 when he was diagnosed with stage-four cancer and told he had just months to live. He has since cycled more than 35,000km from his hometown of Bristol to Beijing. The now 31-year-old told me his story👇 www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-fac...

‘We grow into a love of the world, a love that is all the more precious and poignant because the great glory of which we are but a particle is lost almost as soon as it is gathered’ John McGahern

David Dimbleby skewering the monarchy is glorious #WATO

I'm looking forward to the rewilding of the requisitioned estates of the criminal Windsor racket 🌳

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

6min 38sec mile at 80 😯 runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/80...

RIP Jesse Jackson Will always remember seeing him speak in Hyde Park, alongside Harold Pinter, against the invasion of Iraq, back in Feb 2003. I was 20, at my first rally, and it was freezing – but electrifying. "Give peace a chance" news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2765...

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

'don't expect any five-stars this year'

Shiela Heti never disappoints granta.com/good-medicine/

Blue Lights is one of the best TV dramas ever, & this is a fascinating chat with its creator Declan Lawn 🚔 open.spotify.com/episode/11WG...

This is a fantastic interview:

Have always found bradycardia a rather odd boast To quote the literature: "Bradycardic athletes have an increased risk of permanent pacemaker"

Make this decades for cycling 😂

Hope all the arrested protesters get compensation and grovelling apology

Can't help wondering how this broke down. Probably not a £10 BJ on a £599,990 Louis XV chair?

Certain cycling teams being obstructive to journalists is obvs not new - but the fact it's getting worse is very ominous

Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.

oh, Jack has nailed something here: the idea of assigning an age to someone is bang on. My parents are forever in their late 40s; my dad being nearly 87 is a shock each time I see him. Ditto John Major being 82. My nieces are all forever about 11, etc etc

Solid summary of why Labour deserve no sympathy

Honestly struggling to understand this piece. Am I not getting the joke? observer.co.uk/style/featur...

"The trouble with the English is that their history happened overseas, so they don't know what it means" Salman Rushdie

A question for the cyclists among you: #journorequest #cycling

A rare bit of good news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peter Mandelson did not happen in isolation. He was enabled by a class of politicians, media & corporate business & is the embodiment of a rotten, venal, self-serving political & economic system. Below: Jon Sopel writing that "Mandelson is a class act" one year ago.

Thanks to @antonjtmcc.bsky.social for invaluable edits (this was a tricky one to write!) 🙏

David's latest essay: the 1990s nihilistic turn encapsulated in a Sussex ruin, what remains of the millennium, and Percy Byshe Shelley. Read at the link below ✨ open.substack.com/pub/davidbra... For more: @dbfreelance.co.uk

On first glance, thought @doctorhutch.bsky.social had expanded his publicity campaign to the rail network

Wrote about a memory from the year 2000, a quarter-century gone, a ruined palace, and what remains 🏰 open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...

Wrote about how the 21st Century is, to my mind, an unfinished palace 🏰 open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...

Wrote about how the 21st Century is, to my mind, an unfinished palace 🏰 open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...

Ever wondered how much cycling energy it takes to boil a kettle? ☕ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIUk...

To demonstrate how pathetic human-generated power is, I boiled a (tiny) kettle with cycling energy www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIUk...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Thank you Bruce Springsteen for releasing 'Streets of Minneapolis' abt Trumpian brutal violence & the killing of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. Resistance to authoritarian demagogues comes in many forms one of which is songs of collective resistance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

I recommend @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's "debate" with Matt here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5bn...

Beautiful interview with Chloé Zhao open.spotify.com/episode/4Hf5...

'Men's Beds' by Richie Hofmann

The latest print issue of @cyclingweekly.com is our next-generation special – with a trio of brilliant features by @cmbreports.bsky.social & Michael Venutolo-Mantovani 🍼

Thanks to his being platformed everywhere, I've now listened to what feels like days of Rutger Bregman exposition, and his sole insight seems to be that social change often begins with people talking to one another in small groups. Great 🥂

This is just more blather from Trump, and as ever the inaccuracy has no consequences for him. Isn't this - as a lead story - just amplifying his noise? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

That circa is doing some heavy lifting @lrb.co.uk 👀