Will Moore

[Will Moore @MooreWill87]

@KPSnacks I like salt but this os a little much even for me?! I think there might be a problem with this batch!!

[David Millar @millarmind]

On Friday we found out @itvcycling won’t be showing the TdF beyond 2025, something I hadn’t really imagined ever happening. My thoughts on it in @neverstraysfar along with @nedboulting & @Petekennaugh 👇🏻

Apple: https://t.co/k5Qi5mGOn9

Spotify: https://t.co/zsZyzatpD2

[Daniel Lloyd @daniellloyd1]

I understand that ITV did not bid for the live rights, and nor did any other UK free-to-view broadcasters.

Also sounds like WBD will make a big effort to ensure long form highlights will be available, free to view, somewhere.

[Daniel Lloyd @daniellloyd1]

This is not good news for cycling in the UK.

Firstly, I'd like to say that there are a lot of passionate cycling fans working at WBD, in front of and behind the scenes. The company is automatically 'disliked' by a cohort of the general public because it's a huge international conglomerate, but Eurosport have been showcasing cycling since 1991. They have, and continue to do a hell of a lot for our sport.

On the flip side, exclusivity on the biggest race in the world, the ONLY race where non-cycling fans might tune is, is very worrying. It's a significant barrier to entry into what is already a relatively niche sport in the UK.

ITV not only do a fantastic job themselves of broadcasting the race, live and with easily accessible highlights, they provide a gateway to WBD. The fans they 'convert' each July are more likely to subscribe to Discovery+/Max/Eurosport once they've realised how amazing our sport is. They must have made lifelong cycling fans of millions of people over the last few decades (including me).

Anyway, I really feel for Ned, Dave, Pete, Matt, Daniel, Gary and all the others behind the ITV production - thank you for all you've done for the sport.

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

One of the reasons we are so bad at investing (including in HS2) is because of the feast then famine of such volatile public investment - destroying attempts to build up supply chains and expertise in doing it well. Stable investment = better & cheaper projects

[Phil Liggett @PhilLiggett]

Really saddened that ITV will not be able to show Le Tour after next year. Its history on ITV goes back almost 60 years when it started on London Weekend TV with David Saunders. Big thoughts to @millarmind and @nedboulting

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

Fraid not. In France… public AND private investment are both materially higher. What our kids are paying for is politicians taking the short term easy options - living off our past rather than investing in our future

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Farage declared the flight & hotel were paid by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based UK tech investor.

But US authority fillings show a US PR firm paid his hotel bill & gave him free services.

Farage did not declare this in the MPs interests register.

https://t.co/pyMShuv9Lx

[HENRY MORRIS @mrhenrymorris]

So he didn't deserve to go to prison for being part of a lynch mob that tried to burn refugees, but if anyone had to sit in traffic outside the Holiday Inn he should have been "flung into jail". Have I got that right?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Southern Water plans to pay out £275m in dividends despite rising debt pressures."

So @SouthernWater say they need to borrow £4bn and @ofwat is about to approve putting up customer bills by 44%, oh and they still managed to payout £275m in dividends. You're being had.

https://t.co/NAKHDAPMZz

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Exclusive by @LucyGJWhite

*Kemi Badenoch is running her leadership campaign from the house of a wealthy donor
*she hasn’t yet declared the donation-in-kind to parliamentary authorities
*it comes despite Tory criticism of Starmer using Waheed Alli’s flat for the same purpose
*Neil Record is a currency trader, anti-net zero campaigner and former Institute of Economic Affairs chair
*Record tells Bloomberg that Badenoch’s team asked CCHQ for advice and were told they didn’t need to declare the use of the property
*but CCHQ says that advice applied to an internal log not the parliamentary register…
*Badenoch spox says she hasn’t done anything wrong

https://t.co/3QeZqcD7PV

[Sayeeda Warsi @SayeedaWarsi]

A start up business
- with NO employees
- having NEVER made profit
- has more than £300000 of debt
And earlier this year registered a loan from a company registered in the British Virgin Islands
- has made a decision to make a payment of £75000 to Jenrick
Hmmmm- 🤔🤨🧐

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

So Kemi Badenoch, whose party has spent weeks attacking Keir Starmer for registering use of a flat from a party donor, has been secretly using the flat of another millionaire donor, currency trader and Tufton Street think-tanker to run her own campaign https://t.co/iXlS9msCIB

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

5. The fact that they treat it as some kind of game tells you all you need to know about these useless and pernicious old boys’ clubs.
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[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

4. Frankly, I couldn’t give a tinker’s cuss whether they respond to my article or not. This isn’t about me. This is about a stupendous waste of public money, damage to people’s homes, threats to their lives, and the vandalism of precious ecosystems such as chalk streams.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

3. I can understand why they don’t want to defend the indefensible, but it should be slightly concerning for those whose homes get flooded as a result of the IDBs’ inbuilt uselessness that his communications policy is guided by what could “annoy Monbiot the most”.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

2. It was sent to the Internal Drainage Boards by Innes Thomson, head of the Association of Drainage Authorities, that supposedly oversees the IDBs. Here’s the text:

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

1. A fortnight ago, I wrote about the scandal of our Internal Drainage Boards, which are supposed to stop flooding, but are unaccountable, self-serving, feudal bodies that do more harm than good. Now a disturbing email has landed in my inbox. https://t.co/ivIJNv1rPj 🧵

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

You’re right: no one should be trying to kill your father. Political argument is for the ballot box. But you mocked and joked about the grievous hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul. How would you explain that to the former Speaker’s grandchildren?