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News editor online and in print for Cycling Weekly. Ex Procycling mag. Likely to be at a bike race, in the pub or looking at paintings. Bristol based.

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28.02.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The palette of green, brown and grey feels almost more Belgian than the black, yellow and red flag

28.02.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

it's just a weird thing to say about the nice plumber lady

27.02.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Labour’s worst fears realised by Greens’ victory in Gorton and Denton byelection Result shows progressive voters they have an alternative to Labour against Reform UK, and reveals task ahead for Starmer

Good!! Down with the Labour right.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

27.02.2026 09:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

27.02.2026 08:56 πŸ‘ 4266 πŸ” 792 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 20
tweet by the late Dawn Foster from Sep 4th 2020 

"Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a β€œracist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses."

tweet by the late Dawn Foster from Sep 4th 2020 "Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a β€œracist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses."

RIP to a real one

27.02.2026 09:05 πŸ‘ 1617 πŸ” 363 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 13
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Insulting his constituents, Matt Goodwin does the most Matt Goodwin thing. Blaming others for failing to see his brilliance. Academics first, now voters. This sentiment is driving his radicalisation. Maybe even people at Reform will realise that itβ€˜s a very bad quality for a politician to have.

27.02.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 187 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 8

Podcast now is it

26.02.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

22.04.2024 19:43 πŸ‘ 3645 πŸ” 1419 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 43
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Your man may have broken his own organisation’s rules on political neutrality. But these things only matter when others seem to do it. So nothing to see here.

19.02.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

I think it has been a while!

19.02.2026 13:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There used to be a song about swinging him from the itchen bridge

19.02.2026 13:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My club's best ever player is madder than yours

19.02.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally we get to have a second English revolution. I'm joining the fifth monacrchists

19.02.2026 10:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Mulligan and O'Hare, Pancake Day

Mulligan and O'Hare, Pancake Day

17.02.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Southampton FC, I was ready to give up on you

10.02.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Niall Ferguson, eh

01.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Going to pretend everything is ok in the world for as long as BodΓΈ/Glimt are beating Man City

20.01.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing Trump always brings out so clearly is the primal desire of all Americans, even the putatively left-wing ones, to luxuriate in American chauvinism

20.01.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tell you what. Not a great time to be a mid-sized nation going it alone

20.01.2026 08:17 πŸ‘ 485 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 5

There should be mandatory training/classes for all radio presenters on how to pronounce the most well known Welsh place names

I’m not expecting any of β€˜em to be able to roll out the full llanfair pg but stumbling over Llandudno or Llangollen in the year of 2026 should be a sackable offence

18.01.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 13

My main thought about AFCON is it just looks so wet. Someone get a towel.

18.01.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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'It will be unforgettable' – the British Tour de France 2027 stages are even better than we could have imagined Plans for 'the grandest of Grand DΓ©parts' are living up to their promise

I went to Leeds yesterday for the big Tour de France 2027 reveal. Here are some thoughts on the announcement

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/it-wi...

16.01.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'2027 will be bigger than anything we’ve seen' – London, Manchester and Cardiff part of British Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes Grand DΓ©parts as routes announced Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift to begin in Leeds after Tour de France begins in Edinburgh next year

2027 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes will be great (if the world is still spinning by then). Edinburgh! Leeds! Cardiff! London! Manchester! Liverpool! Keswick, Welshpool and Carlisle for some reason!

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/2027-...

16.01.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm very tired

15.01.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's time for the truth

15.01.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the best thing to do is just to post up to any little bar and let the tapas/caΓ±as flow though really!

15.01.2026 12:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

bar poΓ«!

15.01.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
15.01.2026 11:22 πŸ‘ 216 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

someone has pointed out there's a Wellington, but I've been through the list and there aren't any others. No Churchill!

14.01.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0