Done with them all. Bang average people with awful childhoods and no perspective offered immunity and riches beyond belief. We can do better, and should move on now.

Thanks Richard

Have just discovered (courtesy of Jeremy Cooper's fantastic novel "Discord") Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, composed and first performed while he was a P.O.W. in Stalag VIII in 1941. Pretty extraordinary work. open.spotify.com/album/5oXym4...

The Power of the Object

Some Light Lunchtime Literature (LLL) open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...

Please, of you support NSF, and what we are trying to achieve, sign up here and get EVERYONE you know to do the same. It's free, but also it's vital to us... neverstraysfar.com/pages/sign-up

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God I love my job* *don’t have one. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

God I love my job* *don’t have one. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

If you like your cycling you'll love @nedboulting.bsky.social being interviewed on his own podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/0cwa...

Outrageous finish on the top of the mighty Montagne de Lure today at the Tour de La Provence.

Missive from Marseille! Part One of the Tour de la Provence - featuring lots of riders, some old French chaps, Thomas Voeckler and a brutalist wonder. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Missive from Marseille! Part One of the Tour de la Provence - featuring lots of riders, some old French chaps, Thomas Voeckler and a brutalist wonder. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

I’m at the top of the next GPM at the Tour de La Provence. It’s bitter.

Thank you!

I have voted in the past three elections via mail-in (postal) in the UK. But, and here's where it's a bit weird and might send people mad, I am not, nor have ever been a UK citizen.

Quiet day on BlueSky for me. 🤓

This is a tale of our time.

Talking of Ineos.... open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...

Jim Ratcliffe is a prick. I always thought he was. He has done nothing to suggest that he is not a prick. I loathe Jim Ratcliffe and as a result I find it very hard to get behind his cycling team. He was a prick before he got into cycling. He’s always been a prick. I hope that clears things up.

Cricket post. For the last ten years I’ve had no idea whether England are any good or not. Cricket post ends. 🦗

We decided that, rather than sit back and wait for brands to come and sponsor us, we’d make the first move.

Ask us anything!

Great to see Ned up in my neck of the woods last night, a really fascinating and amusing Q&A with another great writer, Harry Pearson. Definitely worth a listen!

NSF latest: a recording of last night’s event: Ned talks with the great Harry Pearson about 23 years of the Tour de France and associated stuff. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Thanks to the crowd who braved the miserable weather to listen to me and @camsell59.bsky.social chat about the Tour de France last night at Wylam Brewery in Newcastle. And thanks to @forumbooks.bsky.social for organising! Support your local bookshops, guys!

If only everything in life was as permanent and reassuring as Clare Balding's hair.

Sit back and think of summer (sign up, support, and re-post) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjFk...

Here's Thomas Mann (L), with a Paul Ehrenberg, painter, violinist, Mann's muse and mostly unrequited lover. Off on a bike ride.

Thank you, Dave.

It's the final day of the Étoile de Bessèges today - a race I visited in person last year. It was fascinating. Here's part one of my account.... nedboulting.substack.com/p/bello-gard...

Last night there was a vigil for the first cycling fatality of the year on London's streets. I was there. Here are some thoughts (no paywall). If this strikes a chord with you, please comment on the post and share. open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...

"The rocks were rubbed last night, so they're running just that little bit faster". I find myself nodding along, like I have the faintest idea. #WinterOlympics #Curling

a call to action @tflondon.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk @london.gov.uk @heidialexander.bsky.social @ruthcadbury.bsky.social "a one-stop measure which addresses in one stroke some of the biggest, & most intractable problems we face, from the cost of living, to health, pollution & climate change"

Last night there was a vigil for the first cycling fatality of the year on London's streets. I was there. Here are some thoughts (no paywall). If this strikes a chord with you, please comment on the post and share. open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...

Allez! Allez! @nedboulting.bsky.social w/ @camsell59.bsky.social Feb 10 @ Wylam Brewery 🍻 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/exh...

South Londoners - this is a terribly sad, but important moment. I'll be in attendance.

I know I have a vested interest (I’ve written for them for well a decade) but @rouleurmagazine.bsky.social is a standalone, irreplaceable, wonder in our little world of cycling. Long may it thrive!

Thank you, Si

NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨 2026: the Journey so Far. @adamtranter.bsky.social @nedboulting.bsky.social and @lauralaker.bsky.social discuss local politics in the run up to the May elections, Ned's trip to India, and learnings from New York mayor Zohran Mamdani (& other mayors) shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...

NSF convert

In the late 1990s I sat next to Peter Mandleson not once, but twice, in 2 weeks on the Heathrow to Teesside flight. And I now resign. I haven’t got a job, per se, but I resign.

My mate Stef and the amazing @xobikes.bsky.social (plus their new barbers' shop) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Marcel Kittel, Rob Hatch, Tejay van Garderen, Pavel Sivakov, Lukas Nerurkar, Georg Stenhauser, Arne Marit.... etc.

Latest NSF is live. 3 more days of tracking riders round Mallorca. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

I've re-posted this story for free. About my debut as a race organiser, and how a community came together. When I read the news from USA and here, I become more convinced that thing to do it is to act locally. Effect change close by in micro-scale. open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...

There are tickets left, but they're going fast. I'm coming to the Wylam Brewery in Newcastle to talk about stuff with @camsell59.bsky.social on February 10th. See you there!

My perfect hairpin. Waiting to see Remco on the final climb.

This is so strange. open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...

Part One of a Mallorca NSF mini series. Ghastly, beautiful, fascinating and Alex Dowsett. Plus Remco. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...