Sitemap - 2025 - Boyd's Own Paper

In anticipation of GMT, the voters stayed in bed

Martian plot to unionise racing... or maybe it's just Labour.

And they're Off!!!

Paving the way to taxing the Cause, not the Effect

The Seasonal Changes

One Sweet and Sour Dysprosium Oxide and a Manganese and Cobalt Spare Ribs

Poor Mr Horner, still sat in a corner. Or is he?

What a grey day...

Thank God I'm back home! All I now need is Charlie.

The Prix de, a Grand Prix, and one sad one.

À la recherche des odeurs perdues

Just writing dear, not ranting!

Crab Air is going to save us, all wearing plastic shoes

Why being a stoic isn't apathetic... or is it?

45th Ryder Cup

There's a faint glimmer of light; no it's just a pub that hasn't shut yet

The Archers and Day 2 at Ayr

Thames Valley Police in charge of Uncle Sam's safety… unless they're too busy!

A Sunday quickie.

Random Acts of Corduroy, a smelly crutch, and the St Leger. What's not to like?

Bad tailoring, bad planning, bad decisions - democracy (and Donny) lurches on

St Leger Day 1

Feels just like a Sunday...

Boyd's Own Paper: EXCLUSIVE!

Brave Ryan wins the wife, but who wins at No 10?

Post breakfast in every sense

Randomly drinking claret for breakfast

Another cunning plan

If only mending Blighty was as easy as picking winners at York!

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance

One Too Few

Diary of a (partially) broken man

What a cracking Saturday!

A porcupine plays the piano, we give the tips for Saturdays TV racing and we have an interview with a great photographer.

Our leaders' concepts of justice are multi-teared. We should all be crying at the degradation of our legal system.

This is The Road To Hell

The Oriental Express

Up all night at the Ice Cream Bar and Shoe shop

The Secret Censor: How the UK's Online Safety Act is stifling free speech

Galway Saturday - another rush

Saturday's child works hard for a living!

Quick and dirty... and I mean quick

Glorious Goodwood's Hares and Rabbits

Glorious Goodwood Day 3

Sucking the Diesel at Glorious Goodwood and Grand Galway

GALWAY DAY 2

Goodwood Festival Day 1

Not exactly smelling of Roses today!

Government sues NHS on behalf of doctors for employing them.

One day, some day, it will all be fine...

A whooping we will go...

A look back in assuagement

The 153rd Open Championship

Our Ange - the girl who knows all there is to know about property manipulation

Newmarket July Festival Day 3

Newmarket July Festival Day 2

The Newmarket July Festival Day 1

Rumbling tum, or maybe it's grumbling...

Rachel - tick. New Party - Tick. Eclipse???

Is Rachel from Accounts off to pastures new? Is lovely Liz getting Levelling?

Life just keeps getting better and better

So farewell Ascot. Rock on Goodwood

Summer Solstice Saturday - the heat is sending us mad!

Dear sleep, I’m sorry we broke up this morning. Please come back!

Day 2 at the races... ca marche

What is Chapman wearing on his feet???

Royal Ascot Day 1: So many questions, too many answers

Bonjour tristesse

Le Derby, how tricky can it be?

Au bord de la mer... well a swimming pool actually!

I'm not being defensive about Starmer's trompe-l'œils.

The French Derby and some other stuff

Another quiet Saturday with no rain.

The Derby, Brigadier Gerard, the Bishop of Dibley and a break... which is Nice

Sexisim, Clarkson's Farm, Eyebrows, Owners selling up and a Sawang.

En Passant

What a Mess

When your balls get muddy, and other global issues

Science, but not our tipping work is being blighted by AI.

Was Dante prescient about Eurovision and the Levy?

The PGA Championship

Better late than never... in so many ways

We're not even getting the hamster!

The waiting is over for some...

Is Russia trying to sabotage the Lingfield Derby Trial or Conclave?

“Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear”

Chester Day 1 - the sadness of VE Day - and another super League

Don't blame the pilot when you lose your baggage.

Who Will Buy My Luvverly Biscuits?

A door, a door, my kingdom for a door.

By-election today, and bye bye forecast yesterday

Ups and Downs

Aghast at the past and a Punchestown peek.

Congratulations to this year's NH Champion Trainer, Mr...

Friday TV Racing

Is it possible that Trump actually has an economic policy?

The Papal Stakes

Will they vote for more... or less?

Mama Cass' Monday dancing lessons

Quick and Dirty

A good Friday for the Good and the Great

De liefde (voor Max) kan niet van één kant komen.

Trying to be good on Good Friday

Craven was a good egg — craven is what this Government is.

Fancy a quickie?

Last night we witnessed “the occasional miracle”

“Racing is life...”

Ayr Hair Lair

Sandy Lane is back Just in time for The Masters

The Masters 2025

The Punters Progress remains in Doubters Castle with the Giant Despair

Dubai World Cup

Happy Birthday Charlie

As days went - it went.

Is there a Doctor in The Pub?

And another one bites the dust...

Iconic is a cliché - but not this time

A Look Back Aghast

Is the BHA getting the bends?

Aintree, Velcro and slings.

Aintree Notes

RANDOX GRAND NATIONAL FESTIVAL

The new 2025 F1 season

Well, as you've asked me nicely...

A Golden Day at Cheltenham

What ever happened to St Leander's day at Cheltenham?

Cheltenham Day 2

Cheltenham Festival - The first selections

Down the rabbit hole - again

Pulled Up and back to stables for Saturday TV Racing

Left, Right, Left, Right...

Jockey Club diary quandary

Are we now living under "the tyranny of evil men"?

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion...

Cancelled for dinner

The difference between having fun and being smart.

KB... O?

Is the Nanny under attack?

The Week's Behind XV

Sunday, bloody Sunday

Just another nice person gone...

Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

Possible Festival Finds

THE CHELTENHAM GLEANER

Life - just one trial after another

Blow Baby, Blow

Hallelujah, they're free at last... possibly.

Sunday's child is bloody late

Saturday

Racing on Friday, subject to my mental health

The Week's Behind XIV

"Dashing in the Snow"... I do hope so.

Could starvation addle my brains?

Another Quickie

The Quest begins...

2025 - I'm seeking a Knighthood for Failure