CONFIRMED: Paul Seixas will be at the start of this year's Tour de France. And he decided to announce it with the most heart-warming video ever. ๐ฅน
#TDF2026
Trigger warning. This is about Care Leavers dying.
I've been stationary for two hours on a train in Retford. Someone's been discovered on the tracks due to mental ill health. Police and ambulance services are attending to the person.
While here I received this news item from my friend Terry Galloway. It's about the high death rate of young care leavers. A care leaver is seventy percent more likely to take their own life. Two care leavers die each week.
Nick Martin is in the news item. He is the journalist who made a sky doc about "Nonita" a care leaver who took her own life via train tracks.
Terry Galloway is brilliant. . My train is still stuck in the station. I am tired.
Can't remember the last time I shed a tear at the end of a bike race.
I could not be more pleased for Wout van Aert. It would have been criminal if he'd ended his career without a win in a cobbled monument.
To finally achieve it today, at the end of one of the most epic, dramatic and chaotic editions of Paris Roubaix seems fitting. And to do so in front of one of the top 2 riders of all time just adds to the prestige.
Well done Wout. And Belgium: enjoy your party. Surely a national holiday has to be called tomorrow?!
#parisroubaix
So I've seen the new Queen of soul tonight @brookecombe , absolutely brilliant and professional, what a future she and her band have got to look forward to ๐ต๐บ๐๐ค๐ธ
Bruce Springsteen is currently playing to a #NoKings crowd of over 200,000 people in Saint Paul Minnesota right now!
Trump is using government to hurt people who disagree. That is what kings do to scare others. We will not be scared. We will not be silent.
Zack Polanski and Judi Love on The Last Leg
ZP, "These are tricky decisions for people in poverty, disabled, unemployed. When are there going to be tricky decisions for multimillionaires and billionaires. And actually tax the rich"
JL, "Show me a man that's come on live TV to get some votes.. I want the truth, nothing but the truth"
Adam Hills, "With Labour, Reform UK and the Tories all attacking the disabled, how would The Greens do things differently?"
ZP, "Nothing about us without us. Disabled people should be at the centre of the policy about disabled people. Better housing, better transport, its better for everyone including disabled people"
GK Barry, "Who would you cast as climate change in a movie?"
ZP, "Nigel Farage, he's full of hot air"
Adam Hills, "Why is The Green party against nuclear energy"
ZP, "Sizewell C has taken 27 years to build, it's like creating the fax machine right now. We need to invest in renewable, wind and solar"
Adam Hills, "Young people feel disconnected from politics"
ZP, "Stop saying we're inspired by young people, let's help them get into positions of power, invest in young people, give them the resources, confidence and skills, to represent themselves"
Adam Hills, "Green party stance on NATO?"
ZP, "Trump is an unreliable ally. He wants to annex Greenland. I want peace and diplomacy working with our European neighbours"
Adam Hills, "Do penguins have knees?"
ZP, "If they choose to, however they identify"
Adam Hills, "Has Zack ever smoked green, if so was it organic?"
ZP, "We need to legalise and regulate, we shouldn't be putting people in prison for cannabis"
Alex Brooker, "You said you could make women's boobs bigger through hypnotherapy.. You apologised.. How are you with hands?"
ZP, "It's funny because in the green room you were talking about other body parts"
Adam Hills, "Your thoughts on COP30?"
ZP, "We need to show global leadership. We've got a Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, who says he wants the greenest government ever, but he's still drilling for oil and gas, opening new airports. We also need to recognise that the global south, and countries like Jamaica that have just suffered a hurricane, we have a contribution to that. We need to be taxing the fossil fuel companies. And keep fossil fuels in the ground"
JL, "They should be teaching children how to spot a fake politician"
ZP, "Rachel Reeves did a course called PPE, as did Jeremy Hunt, and Ed Balls. I think we need to rename it as P*ss Poor Economics"
*I have friends who read PPE at Oxford, thankfully they're far more literate than Reeves*
Adam Hills, "People compare you to Mamdani"
ZP, "What people get wrong with Zohran, is that it's not just the social media, it's the message: lowering bills, taxing billionaires and making a city everyone can afford to live in. I want to make a country we can all afford to live in"
JL, "Wow.. He's got the chat, hasn't he. Damm brother, where are you from, the south?"
ZP & JL groove ๐บ๐ ๐
Without the Independent Venues this band started in, we would never have made #1 in the Independent Album Chart last week.
So weโre heading out to support them for IVW in January ๐ค
This will fly so be quick, on sale Friday at 10am. Kicking off 2026 with a bang!
Let us pray at the holy church of @TheRoystonClub โช๏ธ
Seeing the band come on stage in fancy dress was deffo not on my bingo card ๐คฃ
โGlued to the Bedโ