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Any other geeks doing the Prudential RideLondon this year? Got my letter through today saying that I've been successful in the ballot. Better get started on the training, only 6 months to go!

The irony of him criticising Labour's plans, when he's relocated both himself and his business while the country is governed by the most big-business friendly administration in more than 20 years, is breathtaking.

Hmmm, not sure this really answers the point originally made. Couldn't find the original article on Full Fact, but the fact that it's taken from HMRC's Income Tax statistics suggests that it is based on only income tax. As jimhigham suggests, the rich have half decent accountants, so will likely...

Gah, can't do 28th March, but I'm determined to make it down for one of these rides at some point! I too need to put on some decent late winter miles. January hasn't been good from a cycling perspective, only 50-odd miles on the clock.

It depends what the idea is. If it's to have a competition to rival the IPL or BB, then yes, it's essential. Fewer teams would mean fewer matches, and they could be played in one go rather than every week. Doing this would also make it more likely to attract the best overseas players (which...

Have you seen the news from Greece recently? Can you point out exactly where this 'party' is? I'm sure the 26% of the active population that are unemployed would like to know, including the 58% of people under 25. I think you're being far too simplistic. There most definitely are are problems...

I agree with this. The Troika now have reaped what they have sown. It was clear that the Greek population were not going to put up with such a massive cut in their living standards indefinitely. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the initial situation (and I don't agree with those that...

...and the Synapse Ultegra Disc that I'm continuing to lust over came 1st. Now I just need to find two-and-a-half grand down the back of the sofa...

Wasn't this always the intention? Certainly it's the rules as advertised when the bans were announced. The idea (which you may or may not agree with) is not the massively penalise clubs which overspend, but to steadily bring their finances under control. They cannot replace a player with...

You are a paving stone. You love to grace gardens and walkways, but shy away from busy streets. Never emotionally strong, you crack easily, especially when the world is cold to you. You hate when a conflict grows between you and your fellow pavers. You sometimes let people walk all over you.

Thanks for this. I see that the Volt 700 also came out top in the BikeRadar recommendations. £55 was a great bargain, well played, as you say it seems to be minimum £80 now. My commute includes c10 miles of unlit cycle paths and country roads so a decent light really is essential. I think I'll...

Afternoon geeks. I got on the bike for the first time in 2015 this morning (and indeed the first time in about 8 weeks, a break which I am blaming, not completely fairly, on the new mini-sten at home). Have set myself a target of 2400 miles for the year (managed just shy of 2000 in 2014...

I'm not particularly up to speed with the peculiarities of D/L but I'd imagine it's due to the fact that Sri Lanka were a wicket down when the rain set in. Therefore having the game shortened is an advantage to them... or something like that?

I must say that I like the look of this team a lot more than the ones that lined up for the previous game. If only they'd drop Cook and bring in Taylor it would be more or less bang on (with Anderson and Broad to come in for two of the fast bowlers, probably Woakes and Stokes or Jordan). Having...

I can't believe that you've got away with this for 40 minutes. Curtailed by a puncture?! Surely you had your puncture repair kit/spare inner tube and micro pump at hand, got it all fixed in 5 minutes and were then back on your merry way? Disclaimer: While I am able to change an inner tube, it...

Ridiculous team selection, this is like the 1990s all over again. Stokes has been messed around with horribly by the management - he's batted as high as 3 but today could be in at 8, and has been picked as the third seamer. Do they really think that a new ball pairing of Woakes and Gurney were...

I agree, they are a load of horse shit, clearly written by someone sitting in a £2m+ house with a chip on his shoulder. Many objectors to the 'mansion tax' claim it's about the imposition on the asset-rich, cash-poor but it seems to me that really they are just ideologically opposed to taxes at...

Excuse the tangent, but you'll find that even if they designed and implemented a great one they wouldn't resist the urge to tamper with it. In Cambridge, a rapidly-expanding city, they've just decided in their wisdom that free parking, paid for by the bus trips from the P&R sites, isn't enough...

I agree that he's factually wrong, but it's really because of semantics. What he should have said was something akin to 'the average student will repay less, in real terms'. A flat tax would have made that more obvious - couching it still as 'student debt' makes the whole thing horribly complicated.

From memory, it was designed to be (more or less) no more expensive to students, because increased fees were supposedly matched with increased grants (across the student population as a whole). The fact that repayments have been lower than originally anticipated would then mean that what Clegg...