Phil 💙

The two people I didn't want to win today ☹️😢😩

Damn. But that was special.

Anyone but Pog 🙏🤞

@cyclingmole TFFT

Early weather forecast for Sanremo. 20km/h tailwind up the Cipressa and all the way to the Poggio. Mainly crosswind on the Poggio itself.

@VelonCC @TeamEmiratesUAE Not the only thing he's taking from him, I'm sure

Del Toro taking fashion tips from Pogi 😂 Isaac del Toro raced the finale of Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 4 in bare arms and covered legs, the same look Tadej Pogačar used on Giro d’Italia Stage 16 in 2024. 📸 Getty Images

@CraigBr22288103 @cyclingontnt I feel sorry for myself that I don't believe in miracles

@PhilSheaS @cyclingontnt Speak for yourself. Watching the best is never boring.

Simply iconic 🤩

THE CRUMBLING CROWN BY @Will___lloyd How the Windsors betrayed Britain Let’s follow the line pumped out like water from a holed schooner by Buckingham Palace and its hard-working proxies for a moment. After the arrest, His Majesty the King put out a rare statement written in the first person on 19 February. He asked that the law be allowed to take its course. The King had already promised to cooperate with the police. Charles had “felt powerfully about this issue in his in-tray”, a friend told the Sunday Times, forcing us to imagine the aging King staring hard and feeling “powerfully” at pieces of paper marked “ANDREW” since 2023. This, the Windsorists wittered in print and across the airwaves, was the screeching sound of a line being drawn under the matter. Radioactive Andrew would be placed in a lead-lined box. Can our legal system cope with the trial of Windsor, should it come to that? At first sight that sounds like a hysterical question. Even a year ago most of us would have laughed at it. But can you have a fair trial of the King’s brother in the King’s Court, overseen by a judge who has sworn a personal oath to that same King, sitting under the King’s royal coat of arms? The mind boggles. It’s not just judges. Magistrates and KCs, soldiers and MPs and the police, privy counsellors, bishops, archbishops: they swear their allegiance to the Crown, not to you. And you can only understand the Andrew story in all its proportions when you know that to cause potential embarrassment to the firm – to ask the wrong questions, to speak out, to raise tedious little concerns – was not a way to open up one’s professional horizons within our multitudinous oath-taking bureaucracies. Windsorists are yet to comprehend what a threat to William’s succession and the firm actually is, beyond a potential trial of Andrew. In January, the Times reported that Prince Harry had won his fight to regain armed police protection. The newspaper did not spell out the full implications for its readers. Harry can now return home to his ailing father and his unhappy country. Should he wish, he will be able to set up a rival court in the land. The House of Windsor and the House of Sussex will be forced to share our small island while the public watches on. A febrile scenario reminiscent of more unpleasant chapters of the medieval period, loaded with the potential for an all-out popularity war between the houses, with unknown consequences for the monarchy itself. What courtiers call “business as usual” will be at a premium. Design by Gregori Saavedra

@cyclingmole Time to turn off then 🤷🏻‍♂️

Get ready folks, Pogačar is back on Saturday.

Interesting anecdote in the Mail today from AN Wilson. 20 years ago the brother of the editor of the newspaper he worked for became a foreign ambassador. Then the late Queen and Prince Philip came to visit…

@tonkovsferrari 💯 I'm laughing now thinking about it 🤣 Went and rewatched it on you tube this morning. It's still just as good and just as funny.

@PhilSheaS The *best* part of that day was that Fat Pat Lefevere would have been utterly furious. Which is always a good thing.

Happy Ian Stannard day!

To uprate the state pension by 4.8% and freeze the student loan repayment threshold is one hell of a reveal of the political economy in the UK (and most other DMs).

@mgtmccartney Absolutely 💯

I think it should be illegal for private screening clinics to advertise lots of scans with the promise of 'peace of mind!' ; I think it should be illegal for the default follow up to be 'see your NHS GP!' and I think the NHS should be doing far more to sort this out

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@tonkovsferrari But gained themselves brucellosis along with a number of other goodies 👍👌

I'm not especially keen on certain aspects of modern, intensive farming practice, but those that buy into the cult of 'Raw Milk' have completely jettisoned whatever critical faculties that they possessed, along with the benefits of a couple of hundred years of *proven* science.

💉 💉 💉 😂 #WeareUAE

@AnnLeinsterFan The players need a rocket after that. No excuse for a lack of effort chasing back. Deserve everything that comes their way in the next week.

@PhilSheaS Ah you don’t boo your own team. The coach might need a p45 though - strategy not working.

England should be booed off here. Too many players have been woeful.

@GilPasCharged Your back/2nd row were huge as was JGP. We were woeful to a man 🤷🏻‍♂️

@PhilSheaS Making us look good, and we're not (well not 42 points good)

Is there a fire drill at Twickenham?