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Not a massive Elton fan, but Fip @radiofrance.fr just reminded me of one of my favourites - hadn't heart this in ages open.spotify.com/track/5XY9FK...

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Meanwhile, according to @cmbreports.bsky.social, it was freakishly cloudy in Spain - strange times

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What a woman 💪 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Did you know? Chromosome testing in sports has been done before and was stopped because cisgender people repeatedly learned that their chromosomes didn’t match their assigned sex. — Something the “XX and XY only” crowd seems to have forgotten.

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🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Imagine being the most ripped animal in the whole kingdom yet everyone sees you as the definitive flab monster

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"Yes, I loved them, and I still love them, but more important than loving is understanding and respecting them, and this includes, more than anything else, understanding and respecting their choices to end their lives" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Where can we live but days?

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Someone give the man his newspaper back, for my inbox's sake!

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Baby niece just asked if I like sleeping in the sun, and I’ve never felt more seen

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Labour: We might be unambiguously right-wing, but at least we're not populist right-wing

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Robin Millar is a personal hero - and even more so for this www.standard.co.uk/comment/pers...

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Within cycling, there has been little discussion of the Israel-Gaza conflict. We felt this was an important question to ask: www.cyclingweekly.com/news/one-rul...

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Within cycling, there has been little discussion of the Israel-Gaza conflict. We felt this was an important question to ask: www.cyclingweekly.com/news/one-rul...

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Geoff Cooke is one of the most determined and positive people I've had the pleasure of interviewing. Here's his story (it's a real heart-warmer), which I wrote for the mag last month www.cyclingweekly.com/news/they-th...

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Hey BBC, you might like to cover this

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Hilarious how Campbell can't compute someone working for free motivated by moral values open.spotify.com/episode/496n...

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In 🇮🇪 for a few days - whose conspicuous support for 🇵🇸 a much needed breath of sanity & moral backbone 💚

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A terrible branding is born...

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Old news, but new to me: Apple is worth more than all the UK's biggest companies put together. We are a minnow 🎣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines....

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Not against it being an art venue, but does it have to be Bloomsbury? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Sure, there were lots of daffodils, but "10,000 at a glance"? Steady on, m8, you're not Donald Trump

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Ahhh, how we at @cyclingweekly.com miss those heady days on the 9th floor of Leon House...

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As a thought experiment, I try to force myself into some form of agreement with DM lead stories... and ppl earning around the £50k mark paying as much or more tax than the very rich is a problem

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I suppose the debate isn't whether AI can produce good writing (it can) but whether a machine's pseudo-subjectivity (no feelings, no consciousness, etc) is worthy of our attention www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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Netanyahu next 🙏 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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The woman was on #wato - and I can't get over how, upon discovering the young man, they opted to keep him squished in his hiding place on their bike rack till police arrived. A shock, fair enough, but have some humanity! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nothing else has hit home quite like this the depth of trauma a whole generation was left with after WW1. We are descended from severely damaged people

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"in the short term, we're all dead" open.spotify.com/episode/0940...

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I interviewed Dave Heeley as my first ever assignment for a national newspaper, back in 2008, when I'd not long been diagnosed with RP. "Inspiring" is a cliche but he definitely made blindness a bit less scary. What a legend! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Cycling subeditors across the land breathe a collective sigh of relief

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Lytton Strachey as conscientious objector: The chairman's stock question had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant:'Tell me, what would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?' he replied with an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them.'

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"War should be a sport for men above 45 only, the Jesses, not the Davids. 'Well, dear father, how proud I am of you... I only wish I were your age: how willingly would I buckle on my armour... I have to stay behind at the War Office and administrate for you lucky old men.' " Robert Graves

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Tax the rich! open.spotify.com/episode/4CqJ...

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