www.facebook.com/share/v/18JC... Of course maybe if Orla's employers hadn't forced cycling fans to choose between paying a fortune to subsidise soccer or losing access to all bike racing, it would have been easier for many, many more of us to post and talk about women's racing.
The animals all rise up against the pigs - rather thsn just end with Orwell's "impossible to say which was which"..
I remember watching that animated version of Animal Farm in school when doing it for GCSE- only recently discovered the creation of the cartoon was actually funded by the CIA as anti-communist propaganda- hence the changing to the ending and other parts!
"Why are fewer people involved in bike racing?" asks article in Cycling Weekly, followed over next few pages by reviews of £85 tyres, £950 bike transporation bag and £11,499 S-Works Aethos 2...
Although I don't think the sponsor should be in the peleton, amusing to see Brtish fans in @CyclingWeekly.com complaining about UAE buying up big talent to avoid competition- the same folk were quick to defend that when it was Sky/INEOS and their cheque-book based approach to nullifying rivals...
So many articles and TV programmes around AI and job losses- yet there was never this volume about treats to jobs in the past- is that because for once its middle-class roles at risk whereas up to now it was skilled and unskilled labour that were impacted?
I was 19 when I first took off in an aeroplane- I was 21 before I landed in one.
Should I ever feel tempted to even consider subscribing to TNT sports so I can watch cycling again I'll remember the sort of scumbag they promote and stick with my VPN and European broadcasters...
I can state with no reservations that I now despise Starmer even more than I did Thatcher- and that's some going for him to force me into that position!
Based on this headline from the Guardian, it would be easy to believe that Iran started this, never mind the fact that far more Iranians seem to have been killed as a result of US/Israeli action but the emphasis is on victims of the Iranian response.
Centrists over at The Guardian already wetting themselves-now trying to suggest the Green victory was due to fraud without providing any real evidence or even explanation as to what supposedly happened- by not naming the party this alledged fraud was intended to benefit they cast doubt on Greens.
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
No surprise Starmer is being a typical centrist drip refusing to condemn Trump's grab for the Venezuelan oilfields- and right now Guardian columnists are probably opening their laptops to try and peform the mental gymnastics to argue Starmer is doing the right thing....
Interesting seeing @theguardian.com decrying Trump's fascistic clamping down on TV comedy when they lead the way by sackinh Jeremy Hardy from his coloumn for being too left wing during New Labour's gvt.
To be fair this billboard is doing a great job accurately replicating the contents of the acts of about 90% of local NI comedians and 100% of merchandise in Belfast art and gift shops...
Funnily enough the other day out of nowhere I had a hankering to check out your "Does That Sound Right?" podcast and was shocked to discover that they are now 4 years old!
ITV News- is Sturgeon's book and your attempt to keep stoking the trans culture wars/ gotcha hackery really more important than the IDF murdering yet another journalist? Your story order seems to suggest so...
Common sense from the boul' Paddy here...
That was a fitting final stage of the Tour- and hopefully that will be the first of many using that parcours- which makes it even more galling that it will probably be the last time I get to watch it on TV, as I refuse to subsidise soccer and TNT's frankly much more infantile coverage.
I'm guessing one positive from the riders' perspective about ITV TdF coverage ending is no longer having to wait in the cold as Matt Rendell poses them yet another dissertation-length question.
The power of knowing its their last hurrah adding a lot to ITV4 #TdF rest day show- 2 hardish hitting packages showing they are no longer beholden to Brailsford's blacklist- somehow I don't see Orla and Adam calling out INEOS lack of transparency over the years so clearly!
BBC 4s theme tonight appears to be artists who played Sun City during Apartheid...
Yet this time next year one of those programmes will be gone while the other will continue its incessant wittering about the pundits fantasy cycling league that no one watching cares the slightest about...!
Gary Imlach on Tour coverage yeaterday: "Pogacar's surrogates wearing the jerseys he's too yellow to wear" a throwaway line that nevertheless highlights the quality gap between ITV 4 coverage and that on TNT...
Philipsen wins stage without endangering other riders shocker!
Matt Rendell on ITV commentary- "The riders are turning hard right.."-Well what do you expect with Quinn Simmons at the very front of the peloton?
This page is now going street by street to identify houses for burning
Race Around The World would really benefit from the participants chucking away the self-help books and picking up Lonely Planet guide books instead- this series was dire.
How long before MAGA post video footage from a Springsteen concert claiming the "BRUUUUCCCE" chants are boos?