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Cycling. Anti-doping. Books. History.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Do you, Sir John, feel yourself to be arbitrary and irrelevant?”

Sir John Betjeman, born 28th August 1906

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you walked up to Mike Tyson in a bar and punched him in the face, I doubt ‘you can’t hit back because I’m so puny!’ would save you from consequences.

Same on X. If you want to punch me in public but don’t want to risk a brain injury in return, stick to your own weight class.

[Elizabeth Ammon @legsidelizzy]

What a weird alert from the Government. It went off half way through the MSG innings here at the Oval and the stadium all looked weirded out by it. I get the risk and everything but I thought those alerts were for impending doom rather than dont light a barbeque

[Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift @LeTourFemmes]

A cruel day for Maëva Squiban, who crashed while in the breakaway but still managed to finish the stage through the pain. 🤕

Journée cruelle pour Maëva Squiban qui a chuté durant son échappée et qui a tout de même terminé l’étape dans la douleur ! 💪

#TDFF2026 #WatchTheFemmes

[Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift @LeTourFemmes]

📸 Pic of the day: Target locked. 🎯

👋 @century21fr l #TDFF2026 l #WatchTheFemmes

🎞️ A.S.O. / Jered Gruber

[Lukáš Ronald Lukács @lucxsronald]

What Kasia Niewiadoma produced today is out of this world and it can be considered the greatest performance in women’s cycling history.

She completed the legendary Mont Ventoux climb (15.62km, 8.69% average) in 55’22” at 16.93km/h, 1471 VAM, and an insane 5.34 w/kg which is reported here by @eliott_aime: For the comparison Demi Vollering produced 5.17 w/kg.

Last year Pauline Ferrand-Prévot produced 5.04 W/kg for 64:50 on the Col de la Madeleine during stage 8 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.

This Niewadoma Ventoux performance in my opinion, also surpasses Vollering’s effort on Mendizorrotz, which was also something out of this world: 6.4 ᵉW/kg for 10:18. But doing 5.3 W/KG for 55 minutes is for me more impressive and it is TOP 1.

Ladies and gentlemen, we witnessed history today. #TDFF2026

[Lukáš Ronald Lukács @lucxsronald]

Enjoy it with a French commentary 🤯 #TDF2026

[L M @LALADM_red]

@ethanpearce02 @dcsandbrook And Henry Cooper.

[L M @LALADM_red]

@jk_rowling Hi. Could I ask a small favour? Please could you swing at these people REALLY FUCKING HARD. Thanks in advance. x

[BCCI Women @BCCIWomen]

A heartwarming tribute to two incredible careers 🫶

#TeamIndia players presented special signed jerseys to Heather Knight and Tammy Beaumont to celebrate their remarkable time in international cricket 🙌

#ENGvIND | @englandcricket

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

For years, anyone on the centre left was expected to say absurd stuff like “trans women are women” and “some women have penises.” No one actually believed it - but if you didn’t chant the mantra you would be ostracized as a far right hateful Nazi transphobic genocidal bigot.

So most people - being cowardly - simply pretended to go along with it. And to prove their allegiance to the cult, they joined in the vilification of all those who refused to lie.

Of course we’re glad to see people return to planet reality. But they have left so many people’s lives and careers in ruins along the way.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@sharrond62 They’ll never forgive us for being right, because they’d have to admit they embraced an idiotic, unevidenced delusion that caused widespread harm to women and children.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

I’ve seen some appalling performances from England cricket teams over the decades. But I never thought they didn’t actually care. This is the worst day, because it’s clear this unit doesn’t. It’s not just their discipline that’s collapsed. It’s their self respect.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Ben Stokes out. Embarrassed himself. Embarrassed English cricket. Tawdry end.

[L M @LALADM_red]

@IainDale 1827-37 - 7

[Bishontherockz @BishOnTheRockx]

Still remains THE red card in a FIFA world cup opener.
Nothing compares to this.

[L M @LALADM_red]

@Jebadoo2 @RosieDuffield1 So true.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

I was in the room for this. Rosie and Rebecca Paul were fantastic, the rest of them were like the less able end of TRA twitter circa 2016 including the “but women bring male children into the ladies sometimes!” Gotcha. Shallow end of the pool stuff.

[Prof Dennis Hayes @ProfDHayes]

Keep your politics out of work. The always excellent @VictoriaPeckham in The Times 6/6/26

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Totally fascinating clip. The 👀 that @Jonathan_Hinder gives Derbyshire, as she actively works to get him to describe ‘trans rights’ as a ‘middle class hobby horse’ - which would be quite a gotcha - followed by her disconcerted silence when he just says ‘men’ instead.

She knew exactly what he was thinking of, and he knew exactly what she was doing. But the work on renormalising natural language has paid off. A couple of years ago he would have had to say ‘trans’ in some form, or ‘gender’, to describe events. Now he can just say ‘men’ and the power of that language trickery drains away completely.