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I don't know what part of London you used to live in, but I still live here in the London Borough of Croydon and I think I'm very lucky in the south of my borough compared to all the negative things I've been reading about drivers since the change. Round here I and many other drivers have long...

Excepting orange/yellow in certain circumstances, coloured lights are illegal for all but the emergency services. .

Refusenicks As at the end of 2021 some 44% of 12 to 15 year olds had still not had a first Covid vaccine after well over 3 months of their program. In the month of January since then the UK first jab level has risen by exactly 1% from 90 to 91%. Since the unvaccinated 12 to 15 year olds at...

We can but dream - - - - - - That's four of those dreams in your one short post ! :) .

At end of the reactor life the American ones are removed and buried in a site just to the west of the Rockies. A nasty surprise for some future peoples. .

You missed give up meat and eat veg instead. :( .

Definitely not sufficient, the compulsory element of motor insurance has to be third party cover. The only thing I can suggest is to try through a Lloyds insurance broker to see if they will help with insurance or suggest where to get it: Lloyds inquiry page You'll also see on that page a...

I very much doubt it will, there are too many moderates like me in here for it to happen. 64 million pedestrians, 40 million drivers, 3 million cyclists, 2 million motorcyclists and hundreds of thousands of horse riders. All milling around on our hopelessly inadequate roads at speed...

You quoted my reply but didn't appear to have read it. It's not about the detail of whether a country is or is not factually communist, it is only about American perception. Xi Jinping states that China is communist and has openly stated his ambition to make the whole world communist. The...

You are arguing against yourself by quoting Vince Cable who believes China is both. But that aside, you clearly don't understand the American position. They only need to hear someone say they are communist or hint at being communist to believe it and react strongly against. I don't know if...

Not so at all, the USA still sees Russia as a potential communist threat. The Russian Communist party has adopted the Chinese model of democratic communism and Putin regrets the death of the old order. And communism certainly didn't die out years ago, China, the world's largest country, is a...

Indeed, Ukraine is on the Russian Steppes and was always part of Russia until splitting away as a one country in 1917. So at just over a hundred years old Ukraine has no unique history or culture, it's almost entirely Russian going back a thousand years. .

No, but they definitely want a cold war, seriously missing the last one. It's the only thing that satisfies their phobic hatred of communism and their compulsion to oppose it. Hence also the new cold war they've started with China. They just can't help themselves, which is why I think Europe...

Rather different this time though, no threat of Germany attacking Russia, or even the other way round. In my view Germany's wish to have a peaceful relationship with Russia is the right one. We have it completely wrong in siding with the warmongering USA. .

Welcome to the forum Gustav. .

Their journalists knowledge of cycling is such that I doubt they even knew what lycra is. And they often seem unaware that cyclists should nearly always be in the centre of traffic lanes since the lanes have always been too narrow for a motor vehicle to pass a bicycle when both are within a...

He didn't have a rear brake either. In law a bicycle must have two sufficient acting independent brakes, a fixie rear wheel doesn't begin to qualify as a brake so he had no brakes. Alliston's attitude to the law and human life was appalling, so to say his prosecution was completely over the...

No, not a car horn equivalent. The point I and indeed the judge made is that NO sound warning is a legal excuse in a collision. Shouts, bells and horns are no excuse. The responsibility on all vehicle operators is to stop in time to avoid a collision. Alliston made no attempt to slow or...

Yes the tabloid readership might be hate filled and biased, but we have to be careful not to be the same. In the Alliston case the only reason that the charge mentioned "wanton and furious" was that the law on cycling has never been brought up to date so a historic charge was used. Be careful...

A good summary of the changes, but little will change. Many cyclists will know the new rules but drivers won't since almost none of them will read the new highway code. Perhaps the driver as well as the vehicle should be included in the annual MOT to see if they are up to date and roadworthy...