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It's just hard to see where the posturing stops and the uk govt's actual red lines start.
I still see them backing out of no deal and just reframing whatever new negotiations/transition period or whatever is coming. Semantics and optics are all too important for the tories

Guess that's what you look like when you are too used to getting your cake and eating it 💁‍♂️

Hehe need to work out how to quote.

In all fairness to matt hancock, dover is more widely known than felixstowe internationally

I think you'd actually be surprised. Being from Belgium, I had never heard of something like it. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist there, but in the UK people are often talking about it (at least by the English people I know), it gets mentioned in probably 60% of QI episodes etc. So yes, a very British thing IMO

Buddyrider.
Not cheap, but our cockapoo loves it and it is really safe (both for dog and rider)

Also, there is no clarity on antibodies in any case. Everything I've seen
/read in regards to that was relating to scientists being half baffled with how little antibodies people have against it or how the antibodies disappear much quicker than they had hoped or expected.

Passing it on will depend from person to person, irregardless of already having been positive (superspreaders vs 'regular' spreaders). People have tested positive twice. Fernando Gaviria for example.

Edit: meant to reply to @paininthe

Tour de Yorkshire skipping another year

You can enjoy the park as much as you like, provided you are only there with members of your household. One other 'external' person can join you there outside and that's it.

Dumoulin not starting at the Vuelta anymore today

Yes, everywhere in Western Europe they've changed

Edit: too late

There was an interview with Adrie VdP 2 weeks ago on Belgian TV where he said AF is aiming to beat Arkea on the pro conti team ranking. Ending 1st there gives you starting right everywhere as opposed to starting obligations like the WT teams.

Upgrading to WT now might be stretching themselves too much as theyd need a bigger roster and could prove too costly (travelling to Tour of China etc).

They might be interested in taking over a WT licence at some point but merging teams would mean taking over part of the other team's structure and personnel, hence them not negotiating with CCC. They want to do their own thing.

Very windy, half an hour after Ganna/Dennis rolled through this happened

De Plus had an injury keeping him off the bike for a long time. Then first he was in the Giro selection but that is also not happening now. In every article I read about him not going to the Tour the rumours of him going to Ineos were being mentioned, so that might also have got something to do with his "slow recovery" and not being part of any of the Jumbo lineups for the GTs this year

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Also, wouldnt be surprised if some of the Jumbo Visma guys do some work for Van Aert or drop a gap when he goes

Quite a big list of riders looking strong right now for whom the parcours seems doable - van aert, alaphilippe, maybe even Pedersen or some of the Sunweb riders.

For TT, Ganna is my favourite, but it is apparently not very technical, so could also be something for Van Aert or Campenaerts

Possibly, possibly, the furlough scheme.

Got quite a few freelancer friends in the artistic sector and friends in TV/Movie sector who would beg to differ on that.

And Matty Hancock was trying to bring this up on R4 earlier when saying how essentional it is to make international comparions as we do have a large testing program we just appear to be using it inefficienctly

This makes the blood boil, few months ago they were refusing international comparisons because of this and that reason. They only want to compare when they can spin it in their favour

At the same time kwiat and schachmann left before their prime, and kwiatko had already won the worlds, strade, amstel and several podiums on day races and smaller stage races. Can't really say he became much 'better' after that IMO

And Uran (can be argued)

Back in the day when commuting was a thing, I used to take Shakespeare Rd rather than milkwood to go between HH and Loughbourough. Good to see they are tackling Milkwood.
Didnt know about Railton, and was pleasantly surprised last week when cycling there w the girlfriend. She is normally not very confident with the bike and was loving it, so it is definitely helping people overcoming some fears around cycling/walking in London

Soupe in the breakaway! (Or at least trying to)

Why wouldn't the EU care about that? That would be a direct hit to their single market, so would be one of the first things they'd flag. The integrity of the single market has been paramount from the get go, and will continue to be so. It's the EU's raison d'être, so I'd be amazed if they'd be OK with letting goods travel undeclared from Eng/Scot/Wales to NI and the into the EU.

Edit: but then I read that Twitter thread and can't follow it tbh, not sure what he means.

Also you'd expect at least some capacity in big cities. Having to drive from London to Bexhill-on-Sea just seems off.