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my personal best (I kid you not) on a very serious, long downhill in the alps on a mezzo folder was (measured on a garmin satnav watch) 48 mph. the terrible part of it was that I just couldn't muster the courage to tuck in a bit more and push past 50 (the front wheel began to develop a...

some think trump proper. this week he turned a nature reserve into open shaft mines, telling the electorate he is "taking control away from a few burocrats and giving it back to them" - and some actually bought that. what does he, or boris, or other brexitters have to do to loose the support of...

on the one hand I'm quite chuffed that the dup is spoiling a possible brexit deal, it makes it ever more apparent to the ever so bloody slow electorate what brexit is really about, and sentiment is, glacially, shifting back to remain as reality dawns. on another level, have you ever bought...

yes 14 miles is a bit borderline (more so with hills), but I often wonder when traveling from periphery to centre of London why London does not use land adjoining train lines to create cycle paths, surely it must be almost level gradient (same for footpaths next to thames). the wonder of some...

how many miles is it?a thought that often occur to me in London is that it is so not Amsterdam. it has the same ingredients(cycle paths, public transport, to be honest, sh@t weather, it's 8C in Amsterdam), but somehow it doesn't come together. in Amsterdam its half an hour by knackered bike form...

What makes you think we're trying to persuade each other? This thread is all about sanctimonious posturing. And I have a hunch you're getting a sense for it, welcome.

Leavers have done the UK considerable damage, often for right wing, xenophobic reasons. And they continue to pose this threat to civilisation, much like Le Penn, trump or geert wilders. It would be foolish to forget or condone any of that.

it all happens in the context of Saville etc. unfortunately this country's cultural baggage is not only about Victoria repression. it's also about systemic and other abuse and misdemeanour - often colluded with and hidden by those in power. damian green looking at porn on a private or public pc...

Criminally, yes there was no wrong. But there it's more nuanced morally, and we're all citizens as well as professionals bounded by codes of conduct. If one of us did research on say genetically modified wheat and found it correlated with incidents cancer, but were bound by professional codes...

Oddly in principle I don't trust the police, and do fear them. Stuff like Hillsborough make me deeply grateful no one has my dna. It's a burocracy and the stuff about power corrupting holds true. But then there's my direct experience, a major rta a few months ago in which the other party alleged...

However, the police officer said he did it in response to green accusing the police/Bob quick of attempting to politically smear him. Legality aside, there is the matter of integrity, if one of us witnessed a wrong and had information that showed it to be so, what would we do?

yes, I guess if I were paying someone £250k a year (as we do through tax to green)all my natural hypocrisy would get going and i'd go ballistic if he didn't do 80 hours a week..

I'm self employed so the argument with my employer involve some inner conflict and thinking about dead lines and the bottom line. i wouldn't worry so much IF Damian Green was treated exactly like other employees (i can imagine most turn a blind eye to browsing non work related stuff, but...

well, for what its worth, I wish that was true (instead, im afraid, something much more morbid involving G4S and post brexit privatisation may be going on; if only our politicians stuck to wanking)

as they said on the today programme this am, it's about lying, not wanking - the thing that grinds my gears is the double standards, benign legal porn it may have been, but most outside the wesminster bubble would have lost their jobs for it.

that sounds very healthy (my numbed straggle to the café at 630 is about deliberately trying to wake up, so public transport wont be a substitute, but living somewhere tropical wouldn't be bad..)

On an entirely different subject, I note everyone is online (shan, og), what possible reason do you have for being up at the crack of dawn on a December morning? At least I have the excuse of work.

House price inflation is the result of neoconservative tax raids on pension funds(Gordon brown), ditto closure of final salary schemes. And ultra low interest rates compensating for what banks did to the economy. Its interesting you mention it, to me its classic fake news(I'm not saying your...

Sustainability is about revenue (taxes that pay for schools, hospitals, roads) and skilled person power to deliver services. As we all know immigrants pay significantly more tax than they consume, and are more skilled. The UK is loosing sustainability, not gaining it.

dangerous dan, the Irish partisan? note the internal rhyme..