Netserk said:
It's been some time, but IIRC it was a middle position.
However has that position changed the slightest recently, and if so in what direction?
MY position was that he's a good journalist, an 'average' long form writer, and the book is , to be blunt, patchy. I enjoyed for the gossippy bits, and found the last few pages very hard to digest in tone.
It remains my position.
Some of the criticism of it has been justified; it's no proof of cleanliness, if such a thing were possible. A fair amount is not justified - either assuming motive on, to me, ridiculous grounds or taking the worst possible construction from potentially ambiguous narratives to suit the critics own preformed views.
I think it's probably professionally unwise of him to ghost Froome's auto, but given the nature of some of the criticism of him, not altogether surprising. He's certainly seen a different side of people who till now he would have seen as fellow travellers; his blocking of Digger is indicative of that.
But is he 'on the bandwagon'? I'm reasonably confident breaking the JTL story means no. I've seen no criticism of that point that I find in any way plausible, to be honest.