So far this year - as of 4 February 2024 - on my daily walks, and every single day since 1 January, at least one car has run red lights on a pedestrian crossing.
Wryly amused at our blundering elite who spent the last 45 years doing more damage to our productive industrial infrastructure than Hitler lecture us that we are moving from a post-war to a pre-war status.
Well, well, well. The other shoe drops.
Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal
The UK political class has used WhatsApp to avoid democratic scrutiny. They weren’t bamboozled by the tech or confounded by advice from their private office. They knew what they were doing. They knew it was wrong. They did it anyway.
Funny how aging TINA neoliberals accuse the kids of being intolerant of diverse opinions
An occasional series of East London chicken shops. Peck! Peck! by Sutton and Sons, Graham Road, Hackney, London E8. Sutton and Sons is a chain of North-East London chip shops.
It seems to me British politics reached its nadir some time ago. And now, various Tory wannabees are wrestling in the muddy slops below the bottom of the barrel.
Average car insurance cost in UK nears £1,000 after prices rise 58%
“Like a lot of our expenses, car insurance is getting more costly. And this is likely to be the case for some time. Claiming is one of the biggest factors when it comes to insurers pricing up policies. And with the cost of paying out for claims being considerably high, insurance prices are going to be too.”
From my perspective as an inveterate pedestrian, car driving has got a lot worse in London since the pandemic.
Technicians commission one of the Winter Lights exhibits at Westferry Circus.
X-risk: when the techno-optimists' AI tells them we need to reduce inequality and establish social democracy.