Morning benefits of a Tour de France TT day in the Pyrenees.

First 2022, now 2025! Lionesses, Chloe Kelly, Times front page. Perfect hat-trick! Times Sport The Times and The Sunday Times

A 🧵 if I may… Earlier this year I read a column by Giles Coren (Google it) about how he got tested and then diagnosed with prostate cancer. It reminded me I must get myself checked. So in March I had a PSA test. It came back a bit high at 5.2. The GP said the chances of it…

If any editors want to send me to Saudi Arabia to write about this…

On NE education. Prof Andy Long, VC of Northumbria Uni, to Social Mobility committee in May: "At the recent January application deadline, 32% of 18 year-olds in the north-east applied to go to university compared to 41% nationally and 58% in London." committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/1…

There's still time to sign up for my 3 workshops at the Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School next week on Irish America--Pioneers of Irish America: From St. Brendan to Jamestown--Irish in the U.S. Civil War--“Dangerous” Irish Women--Registration Details: irishfestsummerschool.com/Summer-School/…

Preview tickets for Ange are a steal. Come and see my newest play. It’s barking. Obvs. 🎟️👇

#NUFC flagged as one of PIF's international investment highlights for 2024 in their latest annual report.

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The Normans considered Bamburgh the ‘Old Castle’ - strategically suboptimal compared to the ‘New Castle’ they built at the old Roman crossing point over the Tyne.

Great cover

Well well well, look who just had to recover his Twitter password because he's got a book out today waterstones.com/book/the-o-d-d…

Keeps you going interviewroomone.com/jon-atli-jonas…

Nice inside-y piece this

I’m excited to announce that my Substack is evolving. As much as I’ve enjoyed writing about the psychology of storytelling - a subject that remains an obsession - I was beginning to find it a bit limiting. So I’ve decided to change the name of my publication, to allow myself to

If I made a holy show of myself by getting the biggest transfer story of the summer wrong, I’d be quietly considering my approach to sources/claims/truth rather than saying how hard a summer it’s been and how hard journalism is.