Elderly Tennis Bikes

On the bike innertube issue of yesterday's post, I've been advised to go one of two ways; tubeless tyres or double-ended innertubes, which are a single length, plugged at each end and don't require you to remove the wheel. My next problem is innertube and tyre sizes, which are a bit of a mystery to me in respect of imperial and ISO. 

Moving on; so, in the final analysis, the shine is coming off Boris' plan for funding care of the elderly. Can't say I'm surprised; when the Tory Party attempts socialism as the only logical solution to a problem where the free market is incapable of response, you know the wheels are going to some off once people see through the smoke and mirrors and the brunt will fall on the less wealthy to the benefit of the wealthy. It will be a pleasure to watch the Red Wall crumble. 

So, Britain has a new tennis star, which is bound to cause some intellectual inconsistency among the more reactionary wing of the Daily Express readership (which is large). Emma Raducanu has a Romanian father (we don't want those Eastern Europeans coming over here and taking our jobs, or getting benefits - whichever suits the cause of the day), a Chinese mother (the Chinese are our enemies - oh, hang on - we desperately need their trade - panic), was born in Canada (Trudeau is so Woke) and came to the UK aged 2. 

Something has to be grabbed with both hands and lauded in our current, parlous state and so the Express, for whom immigration was 75% of the argument (and the only one to which it could attach some credibility - not of fact, but of xenophobic emotion it stoked up within its readership), has to embrace a multicultural tennis star who doesn't have a drop of British blood in her, or merely revert to type and tell her to go back where she came from, like it does on the other 364 days of the year.

This does, however, raise some important questions about nationality when it comes to participation in sport. Sportspeople can represent a variety of countries, depending on heritage - if your grandmother was Irish, for example, you can play football or rugby player for Ireland. Surely it should be based on your passport and, in the case of dual nationals, where you mostly live?