Cycling Plus

THE SPIN OUT OF SIGHT

Whether you believed the story of Boris Johnson’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings’ trip to Barnard Castle or not is clearly not something for the pages of Cycling Plus, but the claim that he drove a 50-mile round trip to test his ailing eyesight certainly added, in a roundabout way, a new wrinkle to something that has long been known as the SMIDSY defence.

This acronym, for those

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