Is Bluesky dying? A more thorough look at the numbers. open.substack.com/pub/techtris...

F1 has decided to use April Fools Day by announcing a three-race format for F1 Academy in Montreal and Austin. An Opening Race, the Reverse Grid Race and Feature Race. Nothing about the press release indicates that this is an April Fool... 🤔

The thing that baffles me about the Max Verstappen / The Guardian issue is: did no one on either side have the foresight to reach out to the other during the off season to clear the air? The F1 paddock is a small world and I'm just surprised this wasn't smoothed over before Japan.

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This piece should surely have a disclaimer that its author and interview subjects risk jail time if they write or say that things are bad www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans

UK returns to WRC calendar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.wrc.com/en/news/wrc-...

Well worth ten minutes of your time, this. Good and balanced piece covering the different perspectives on F1 2026.

Confirmed: F1 #BahrainGP and #SaudiArabianGP "will not take place in April." Note that the press release does not use the word 'cancelled'.

100%. I think the Superclipping absolutely rubbed people the wrong way and it's extended towards anything battery related. I think it's way more interesting than DRS. And remember - This, right now, is the worst these regs will ever be.

F1 through the decades. Australia 1986 - Tyre issues dictate the outcome of the championship. Hungary 1998 - Different refueling strategies dictate the outcome of the race. Austria 2001 - Four drivers stall on the grid due to launch control issues. (1/2)

Tate McRae's Just Keep Watching will be the opening theme for Sky's F1 coverage this season. #SkyF1

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

If that Sprint was anything to go by, we're in for a brilliant MotoGP season! #ThailandGP

Great thread on the Gorton and Denton by-election result. 👇

Interesting news for F1 fans in the US: #DriveToSurvive season 8 will be available on both Netflix and Apple TV, with the #CanadianGP streaming live across both platforms.

I do find it very hard to take either Labour or Green indignation at the other’s activities seriously. By-elections are often dirty fights, and this one has been no exception. Neither of the parties can sincerely claim to have fought cleanly. Spare us the phony righteousness.

If you want to know how MotoGP's free-to-air coverage in the UK is shaping up for 2026, highlights of the first Grand Prix from Thailand air on Quest on Monday night at... 11pm... 🙄

OPINION: Mourning The Loss Of Phillip Island, And Why It Was Inevitable https://motomatters.com/opinion/2026/02/19/opinion_mourning_the_loss_of_phillip.html OPINION: Mourning The Loss Of Phillip Island, And Why It Was Inevitable So MotoGP has lost Phillip Island. That is a tragedy …

I think there are some pretty legitimate questions for the Greens to answer in this short thread – entirely possible they didn't know the history here, but if so they should say that and distance themselves.

Did our feral political press pack call time on Starmer prematurely? Accusations are flying . markurban.substack.com/p/did-the-lo...

Would be quite something if we had a major F1 rule change which cost teams a significant amount of money and the pecking order at the front is... *checks notes* ...exactly the same as before. 😅 (Yes, I realise this is day 1 etc.)

If you want TNT Sports, you'll need to add it separately still, as it's not mentioned in the press release.

Valentino Rossi cameo in the Winter Olympics opening ceremony!

Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.

This livery reminds me of the Pacific PR02....

I’ve finally had enough and blogged about the new Civil Service Pensions website @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @janethughes.bsky.social @zsk.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social bearoneill.com/2026/01/29/bad…

#TheTraitors. Still the best show on TV, hands down. ❤️

20 years on. Same vibe, same colour scheme... ❤️🤍💛

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

So... I've created a starter pack of UK government organisations currently on Bluesky: go.bsky.app/JHsY1Wz (Currently includes all those listed under ministerial and non-ministerial departments here www.gov.uk/government/o... - let me know any I've missed, or got wrong)

Regarding the lack of engagement on X/Twitter vs other social media platforms. Here's Marc Marquez' latest posts: X: 9.2k likes, 113 comments from 2.5M followers Ig: 214k likes, 1541 comments from 8.2M followers

Finally subscribed to @samfr.bsky.social and @ldfreedman.bsky.social's excellent site. Think this will be even more important to read and digest this year...

Headline from @manchestereveningnews.co.uk reads "BBC loses rights to two historic sport events as Wimbledon moves to new TV channel in 2026". But neither of the events is Wimbledon, and the "new channel" is just TNT now showing tennis highlights because the Eurosports brand has been dropped.

After nearly 14 years, I'm formally sunsetting the Motorsport Broadcasting website, and have wrote about my decision to do so here - motorsportbroadcasting.com/2025/12/30/b... Thanks to everyone for their support over the years.

Stuart Pringle, the chief executive officer of Silverstone, has been made an OBE in the New Year's Honours list for services to motorsport.

Logging into LinkedIn is saddening. You've been warned - A record number of people are either leaving or have been forced out of Motorsport journalism and jumping ship to PR because the money is shifting to influencers. Why invite press when you can pay someone to directly make your "content"?

There's not been many good parts to social media in recent years, but following @rorycj.bsky.social and #SophieFromRomania has certainly been one of them good parts...

There's only problem. This has just gone out to news outlets from the police. Journalists make mistakes (I do!), a big lie is harder to spot... but it's hard to conclude British journalism aggregation isn't rotten to the core. I think what's really bleak is that *someone else* did die in the canal.

There's an incredibly sad story that's been aggregated across most national and local newspapers today. A 29-year-old mum called Jana Bahvalova found dead in a Manchester canal after failing to pick up her kids. Her family are raising money on GoFundMe for her two small kids on the eve of Christmas.

UK: Sky's coverage of the #AbuDhabiGP averaged 1.87 million viewers from 12:51 to 15:23, with 328,000 viewers aged between 16 to 34. Channel 4's highlights averaged 1.08 million viewers. All the figures exclude those who watched in pubs. (Via - www.thinkbox.tv/training-and...)

Had no idea Nigel Farage was invited to the F1 season finale until I saw this picture... 😐

Silly and stupid F1 2025... had the season ran in *reverse*, the standings heading into Australia would have been: 1. Piastri - 408 points 2. Verstappen - 403 points 3. Norris - 398 points ...and on lap 43 of that race... 1. Piastri - 426 points 2. Norris - 423 points

In 2015, McLaren finished the season ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 12th and 17th. 27 points and 9th overall. Ten years later, they finished the season on 833 points as both Drivers' and Constructors' Champions. 👏

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

about.netflix.com/en/news/netf... "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion)" Important Note - TNT and Discovery+ are part of Discovery Global and will NOT be acquired by Netflix.

Unless there is an announcement at the eleventh hour (always possible), the answer to the second paragraph is 'no'. As it stands, the F1 season finale will be exclusively live in the UK on Sky Sports. Of course, no obligation for Sky to share live coverage with Channel 4 if they don't wish to.

Sunday's #SkyF1 schedule for the #AbuDhabiGP: 11:00 - Grand Prix Sunday 12:55 - Race 15:00 - Chequered Flag 16:30 - Ted's Notebook Sky's build-up and Chequered Flag have been extended by 30 minutes each.

Right now, the only motor sport race airing live on free-to-air TV in the UK next weekend is the Sao Paulo E-Prix on Saturday 6th December on ITV4. We'll see if that changes in the coming days...

Incredible stat: On the last Five Occasions that at least Three Drivers were involved in the title decider - 1981, 1983, 1986, 2007 & 2010 - The driver leading the championship heading into the race never went on to win the title. Can Norris break the curse? redd.it/1pap8wr #F1 #AbuDhabiGP