Had fun editing this: @jamesbriggs11.bsky.social making the case for cycling a song lyric, citing his 'midlife-crisis-fuelled' ride from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads... via Moscow, naturally In the current issue of @cyclingweekly.com

Months and months without a cold – but now, finally, an absolute bastard 🤧😩

John Berger in heaven loving this

Based on a spell Power spent living on the Aran Islands in the 1950s, this is a series of vivid, haunting portraits (almost like an Irish Akenfield). Here he is observing a funeral... #AppleOnTheTreetop #RichardPower

Save yourself the trouble of listening to Nandy: the things the government (and BBC) think are harming the BBC are practically opposite to the things actually harming BBC open.spotify.com/episode/3Xf9...

The glowing reviews of The Ballad of Wallis Island are very generous, is all I'll say

I interviewed Harry Hudson two years ago when he'd just won the junior national hill-climb champs aged just 16 – already hitting big numbers

10.2sec for 100m - fastest politician of all time? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dads, eh share.google/PkLOpGmRdApT...

When all else fails, a nihilst edgelord is something to be

If anyone wants to donate to a grassroots relief effort in Gaza > Dahnoun Mutual Aid chuffed.org/project/1152...

Is someone going to ask Dygert which of Kirk's 'truths' she stands for? Great replacement? That MLK was awful? Civil rights a destructive force? School shootings worth it for the second amendment? share.google/NucEh0I8pK6V...

Edwin Muir's poem is ripe for a rewrite... 'On the second day, the internet failed...' share.google/GALjWWEbidOB...

There is no worse driven car on the British highway than the Porsche SUV

The BBC needs to get a fucking grip

wrote a column about the vuelta protests, the india v pakistan stand-off, and how the sporting battlefield has increasingly come to resemble the real thing www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

RIP Conor Gearty

Look no further than the current issue of @cyclingweekly.com to fact-check the President

Look, an eagle! 🦅 Not often that CW strays into the ornithological, but it was fun working with Steve Shrubsall on this www.cyclingweekly.com/the-bike-off...

Just like my forebears who used to wear out the soles of their hobnail boots...

"the first day of peace is the last day of occupation" open.spotify.com/episode/11Z9...

Our old MP never seemed very bright. She should fit in well

Funny, I can't recall Amol Rajan raising this with Orr in his warm and fuzzy interview for the BBC 'Radical' series

Happy birthday Morten Harket, 66 today 🎈

Your racist uncle is probably immune to facts, but anyway www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dear BBC, do this

I interviewed Matthew Richardson for the cover feature of this week’s @cyclingweekly.com magazine and got the full, behind-the-scenes story of his staggering 200m world record Go grab a copy - it’s only £3.35

Apparently Van Hoogstraten hasn't spoken to the press in "three decades" www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2103... A claim disproved by the most cursory bit of googling. This from 2006: www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

1/2 For Sylvan Adams, owner of Israel-Premiertech it’s too late to ‘keep politics out of sport’. The team is an embodiment of politics in sport. Adams, who is vehemently anti-Palestinian, sponsors it in his self-declared unofficial role of Israeli Ambassador. www.thetimes.com/sport/cyclin...

The only thing wrong with this piece is that it ends – I could read about New Yorker fact-checking for eternity

🇮🇱 Israel-Premier Tech held up by protestors in Vuelta team time trial Full story at Domestique 👇 📸 Cor Vos

Revisiting my childhood stamp collection. Some of them are rather beautiful

Quick, someone arrest the salt bin 🚨

1/5 A thread on the flag raising campaign: Flags do not symbolise any stable, inherent message. Their meaning is entirely contextual. Union Jacks along the Mall on state occasions or the St George’s Cross at an England football match are symbols of inclusivity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oohh, you can keep your pink ponies, Amyl and the Sniffers are great eh! #Reading

Love this 'Meet the Maker' piece with Alex Dowsett and his dad Phil Interview by @cmbreports.bsky.social Photos: Richard Butcher www.cyclingweekly.com/cycling-week...

A chillier feel to the weather this week, but hold your fucking horses @fip.fr

"The present UK government has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights and freedoms, including the right to express and read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel." God love Sally Rooney 💚 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This really nails the HELL that is the breakfast buffet

Taking 'the punishment should fit the crime' rather far

I've a rich understanding of my finest defences / I proclaim that claims are left unstated / I demand a rematch open.spotify.com/track/60ZtAo...

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Catalyst Club Brighton last night - couldn't have asked for a lovelier audience for the final outing of my talk 'Clearing up after Great Men: Granny Blackburn and the untold mess of post-imperial Britain' 🙏

This gets an A* from me

Hey DHL, leave off the emails, focus on the parcels, yeah?

Not sure what possessed me to listen to this, but it is eerily fascinating, eg Kemi describing Nigeria as "an extension of Britain" open.spotify.com/episode/5lS6...

Classifying it as "the one to drop in at dinner parties" is all kinds of ick 🤮 I Put a Spell on You is a masterpiece, probably my favourite memoir of all time www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

This is a v good piece by Feargal Keane I've no ancestral connections to Ireland, but feel strong affinity with its culture (even more so lately as UK enables genocide & gets more repressive). Meanwhile, "culturally English" seems almost oxymoronic! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...