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https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/they-dont-understand-the-bigger-picture-tour-of-britain-race-director-responds-to-route-critics "The organiser of the Tour of Britain has said Brexit is to blame for the small size of the peloton at this year's race. Just 97 riders started the British .Pro race in 2023, down from 110 last year, and 125 in 2019, pre-Covid and before the official departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union Mick Bennett, the race's director, explained to Cycling Weekly that the UK leaving the EU was largely behind the reduced peloton. “It's purely and simply Brexit,” he said. “Just to give you an example, it took some teams that rode the World Champs five hours to get their vehicles, and technical teams through customs at Dover, and that was only three weeks ago. And they go, 'Hang on. You know what? It's not worth it'. So they didn't, but that's purely and simply down to Brexit.”"

Clueless Kemi Badenoch trying to explain why, since Brexit, we now have to subsideise BMW's production of new Mini models...

Russian Orthodox priests spraying holy water over a military base to protect it from Ukrainian attack.

You would love Bohinj loads of German women sunbathing topless.

Darwinism at work.

A vaccine will not stop you catching a virus. What if does is train your immune system to more rapidly identify and respond to it, which might mean you suffer low level symptoms, ( compared to a full on infection ), if exposed. It also reduces the chance that you will, yourself, become infectious.

There is a very slight risk associated with particular forms of vaccine, of which the AZ COVID jab is one. Although this risk is not specific to the COVID vaccine, I suspect that the expedited development program didn't help. Hope you are on the mend.

East-stand-nic, I know I have just suggested you keep your promise and ignore me but I wish to ask a non-aggressive question out of genuine interest; Are you against vaccination in general, or just the Covid-19 jabs specifically ? If the latter, why is it different ? I appreciate that some people are against all vaccination for, what is to them, good reason. ( Although I think they are seriously misguided ).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/26/covid-patients-tell-of-regrets-over-refusing-jab-vaccine-intensive-care https://www.samhealth.org/about-samaritan/news-search/2021/12/09/albany-oregon-dad-regrets-not-getting-vaccinated-for-covid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-58481626 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/anti-vaccine-fort-st-john-pregnant-wife-1.6222325 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/covid-vaccine-hesitancy-regret.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-vaccine-us-antivaxx-jab-b1896231.html https://jeff-jackson.medium.com/46-stories-about-people-who-regret-not-getting-the-vaccine-c7059080d1e6

Q I thought you weren't conversing with my 'type' any more. Why not, this time, stick to your promise ? The only "amazingly stupid" person here is you, posting debunked, unsubstantiated, conspiracy crap and thinking anyone is ever going to take you seriously.

Calling Che Adams to the forum.

You are not right. All you are doing is spouting bullshit conspiracy hoaxes. If you do not want to converse with 'my type' then stop being such a prat. And obviously you have not met anybody who 'regrets not having the vaccination' because they are dead.

FYI, the people in your head are not real.

They didn't "prepare" that pitch especially, it is it's normal condition. A "below standard" pitch for Essex is one that Harmer fails to take a wicket on.

I went up 4 of the peaks around the lake, excellent rambling but bloody warm. The path up the side of the waterfall to the high Alpine pastures was well worth it as well..

You travel through Postojna on a miniature train, and at the heart of the complex is a concert hall.

Do it. We have been several times to Bohinj, which is the head of the river flowing through Bled, near to the Austrian border. If you can, get a trip to the Karst caves at Postinja. ( As we are 'horsey' people we also visited the Lipica stud, where the Lipizzaner horses for the Spanish Riding School in Vienna were originally bred. )

What is it with studio pundits and presenters on sports programs standing up all the time ?

The first thin I think of when I see "Peta" is Mark Cavendish's missus.

Wow, a grand total of 16 votes cast.

This is a great thread for increasing your post count.

Most of the BS you post is just that. Still, it's nice that it seems GM has found a new friend.

Just think of all the pent up anger and frustration he must have in his life that we see vented on here.

I had no doubt that she did, but it shows the problem with asking questions of unbreifed interviewees with no direct connection to an issue. One misplaced "was" completely reverses the point being made. As has been said many times, The Thick Of It was more documentary than comedy.

Find this morning's Today program on BBC Sounds and listen to it. This is what I did as I could not believe what I heard, and as I type this reply I am listening to it again, and that is almost verbatim what she said - other than I have typed "than we saw..." and she actually said "than we had...", and I also transliterated "something like..." to "it is about...", ( 2 hours, 17 minutes, and 15 seconds into the 3 hour program ).