Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
‘Defecting to the reform party’ is a polite euphemism for telling guests at a dinner party that you need to go for a poo.
“I’d love to hear all about your holiday in Sardinia but first I just need to defect to the reform party”
Where's your attention? How long do you think you're looking at your bike computer for?
The clip is 2 seconds, where I'm looking down at the computer, but it feels like 10.
That's too long when hurtling along in a peloton of 150 riders.
Replace the bike computer; reduce distraction.
The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Opinion | We should mock Trump as the joke he truly is. That is the level of response he so richly deserves
🖋️ @iandunt.bsky.social ➡️ trib.al/hj0uY21
Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
So has she, apparently
So. Not quite what I was expecting from this week, or hoping to be writing about by the end of it...
Full outline of what happened at the Renewi Tour last week.
» substack.com/@tomportsmou...
Motherfucking wind farms…
South London’s 17-year-old prodigy Milo Wills (TEKKERZ CC) blitzed The Cycle Exchange Guildford Open Grand Prix, out-kicking Belgian powerhouse Jente Michels (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development RT) to stamp yet another exclamation mark on his breakout season.
thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/07/09/2...
Another Queen Stage in the breakaway. This time at the Baloise Belgium Tour. It was hot and à bloc from the start.
Up next: Baloise Belgium Tour
A few places I recognise on there.
Kermesse racing is one of the best ways to understand the Geography of Belgium.
80 Angry Men:
Finding Strategies to overcome the herd mentality of how the entire peloton functions—the hierarchy of teams. I began to solve this puzzle in my latest newsletter. 👇🏻
tomportsmouth.substack.com/p/80-angry-men
"It’s just another race." As I tried to temper my nerves, I thought about all the reasons why that might be the case. Yet this level, my first dot PRO race, was unlike anything I’d experienced before.
Currently a spot or two of rain at the finish here at Morteau... very changeable conditions though.
C'mon @tomportsmouth.substack.com 💪
Classic Grand Besançon Doubs
@tomportsmouth.substack.com 💪
#WagnerBazinWB #WB2
NEW
How Trump is misusing emergency powers in his tariffs policy
And the implications when a ruler gains a taste for misusing emergency legislation
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-trump-...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
Yesterday I launched back into racing in France. What a day it was to start up the spring period, with anything but spring-like weather 🌧️
📷 Cassandra Donne
Spring racing 😮💨🤌🏻
=
summer for a Briton 🇬🇧
Une belle journée
Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
Donald Trump is crashing the US economy - just one more consequence of him being trapped in a disinformation bubble. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A great start to the year for the first two race days of 2025. I was launching to try and catch the break, I did my job and had good sensations in the legs.
However, deep into the third stage, it all came tumbling down, quickly....
open.substack.com/pub/tomports...
If a man can’t give a Nazi salute at a party for a racist convicted fraudster and proven sex offender, then what kind of sick world are we living in, I ask you.
17-year-long Scottish study of 82,000+ adults finds commuting by bike reduces your risk of:
• early death
• hospitalisation for any reason
• cardiovascular disease
• cancer mortality
• treatment for mental health problems.
Yeah, but those LTNs and bike lanes are *really* annoying.
If this country made the slightest bit of sense we'd be beating Europe's doors down to secure a youth mobility scheme.
inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
