Common Ninja

I bet less than 2% of pedestrians wear hi-viz.

So that would mean the hi-vis wearing pedestrians are over-represented.

What can we infer from that about the safety benefit?

An image of the side of a French motorway. Behind a row of orange cones is a row of damaged hi viz painted road maintenance vans. Most appear to have been rear ended at speed.

French authorities know what's what.

Charming choice of words.

And sure. It's not like the Royal Family have never been used as a distraction from what is going on with Government before.

This meant to take the heat off Starmer/Mandelson?

You do realise hi viz doesn't actually work and may even be counter productive.

There are a papers on driver recognotion of and conspicuity aids for cyclists.

You would do well to read them.

There are very specific measures cyclists can and do take to help drivers recognise them.

Thus mandating helmets is unnecessarily making cyclists a special case.

Helmets infer cycling is dangerous when in reality ot isn't. That deters people from cycling. And compelling evidence tells us fewer people cycling increases the risks.

But please continue with your baselese aeguments.

Drivers and vehicle occupants are more likely to suffer head injuries than non-competing cyclists.

Where are the calls for drivers to don helmets?

You do know that the average commuting cyclist is about as likely to suffer a head injury as a jogger.

Do I see you advocating that joggers should wear helmets?

It's mad that we could be days away from dying in a nuclear holocaust because we decided that was easier than locking up a paedophile ring

Let us just not mention Savile and the CPS when Starmer was in charge.

Is this what they meant by 'change'?

A bunch of fecking hard stools.

What does the venn diagram look like for people who oppose vaccinations and people who think replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy is taking us back to the stone age?

Driver guilty of killing pedestrian in high-speed crash Raymond Munro was recording travelling at 91mph when his car hit David McCallum in East Kilbride.

91mph, killed someone. It's relentless. Imagine the outcry if trains or planes killed this frequently.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another front garden in the street getting paved over.

So much for wildlife.

Nuance.

Some motorcycle manufacturers and retailers do use the term e-bike as a contraction of e-motorbike.

As a general term I take it to mean either and be more specific in my own use of language.

Wouldn't hurt for media outlets to avoid using general terms that at best create confusion.

I think pigeons are the least of our concerns.

How to make pancakes the british way:
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you

That's "centrists" for you.

Centrism is advocacy for the status quo.

They don't want a non-extractive economy.

Oh. You are putting words in my mouth again.

Bye.

The only problems private cars solve are the problems they create.

Taxpayers already subsidise drivers to the tune of nearly £200 bn a year.

Car dependency and driver subsidy are the reasons we have such poor public transport.

And this creates a society where those who cannot drive, whether it be due to age, health or wealth are deprived.

You inferred lazy. That is your bias speaking. And by choosing to do so,you chose to exclude factors other than laziness which result in the problem I cited. And given Scotland has free (at point of use) hospital parking, ypur arguments amount to flagrant whataboutery.

Who said 'lazy'?

All you have done here is expose your lack of imagination and biases.

Having lived in a rural location, without a car, I can safely say it is not a deal breaker.

How do you think the 20% of the population without a access to private vehicle manage?

Robert Lowe’s challenge is real: Do we want a politics of care, or of hate? A commentator here drew my attention last night to a new policy paper from the Restore Britain group that has been launched by former Reform MP Robert Lowe, who now sits as an independent MP for Great...

This is probably one of the most important pieces I have ever written. Robert Lowe MP is proposing the forced expulsion of millions of people from the UK. Full-on fascism is being put before people. We have to decide. Do we want a politics of care, or of hate? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02...

Not to mention, encouraging car dependency, rather than the alternatives, promotes sedentary lifestyles. With half of all adults taking no regular exercise, the extra cost of treatment is £125 bn a year.

If this was deliberate, no doubt it is fuelled by hatred whipped up by media outlets

Proportionately fewer than highway KSIs.

But that is missing the point. Look at what happens when an aviation disaster occurs. Whole fleets get grounded. Thorough inveetigations are made, often leading to wholesale changes to regulation.

Pilots have to undergo psychological tests, for instance.

But further to any of that, the root causes lie in our over reliance on cars. We know that regular cyclists make safer drivers, for instance.

Flying an airliner is a much more complicated task.

Driving is much simpler.

That said, I think a lot can be learned feom the aviation industry in terms of safety culture and approaches to risk reduction.

When this is allowed to happen, we have all failed.