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That seems appealing, but frankly I'd rather we ignore the public and get back to our usual parliamentary control and no more silly referenda with voting by hordes of the uninformed. .

Cycling is falling dramatically overall though, the annual overall bike imports declining from 4 millions in 2010 to just 2.5millions recently, and still falling. E-bikes are nowhere near that 1.5 millions a year difference, ranging in fact from 25,000 to perhaps near 50,000 per annum during...

Which as I've already pointed out in this disagreement is specified in a separate section 8, not referring to a chain transmission fixie. Section 7 referring to a fixie clearly states the legal case of a bike having one brake, and the fixie is that one and only case. Since that one brake is...

That's sailing boat and bow-and-arrow thinking. In this modern age that geographic sea is no more than a little gulley. .

That article has this wrong comment by the BBC: "By law, a bike on a public road in the UK must have two brakes. A fixed-wheel bicycle has a single gear, no freewheel mechanism and dropped handlebars. The rear fixed wheel of a fixie - which a rider can slow using the pedals - counts as a...

So despite every item being logically desirable and necessary, we opt to be an anti-social bad neighbour instead. We really do have an Alice in Wonderland position. .

This is the big long term downside that I foresaw long ago, the recent comment of being in the position of Cuba was very apt. Most forget or never knew that our so called big friend, the USA, were prepared for and on the verge of declaring war on Britain in 1930 in order to break up our...

Britain is England and Wales. Great Britain is England, Wales and Scotland. The United Kingdom is England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Isle of Man, Channel islands, Virgin Islands etc are none of those but are Crown Protectorates. And London just does its own thing. .

Quite a few in Britain these days. Causing death etc during driving commonly used to get just a £250 fine. but following public outcry prison is the norm now. The most common sentence is two years. Not much one might say, but it can have a huge associated effect. Loss of job and damage to a...

But that word has an L of a difference, in fact two LLs of a difference. .

Same as the UK, we still have some powerful unions and high wages resulting. And we're champions at paying people nowhere near enough to live on, it's why we have so many food banks. .

But I did say in Britain, not London, which we all know is a completely different place. :) Note the friendly London smile! .

But their wages have been rising about three times the speed of the UK's, so hardly all bad news. .

Cemeteries? But only if you are into necrophilia. .

None relevant to their economic success that I posted about though. And the criticisms you raise can easily be balanced by non-economic advantages, such things as their huge success with environmental matters like recycling and solar power utilisation and their high standards of civil...

It's not speed, certainly not in this current case. It's about behaviour, the cyclist shouting a warning twice, proving he had plenty of time to slow to a very safe speed and/or swerve well away from the woman. What he actually did was not slow down anywhere near enough and tried to pass her...

The Worst Brexit Lie Of All is the lie by government and Brexiters that we have to leave the EU in order to trade more effectively with the rest of the world. Germany is now the richest exporter in the whole world. That country of just 82 millions makes more from exports than the USA's over...

I don't, tourism has been a curse on this planet, and in this modern media age, mostly unnecessary. .

So despite leaving the EU and withdrawing from the ECJ influence, our laws related to EU immigrants are frozen for up to 100 years until the most recent babies brought in have died? And during that circa 100 years we are subject to any changes in the application of the law the ECJ chooses...

I've never understood the myth that Londoners are unfriendly or less friendly than northerners, it's simply not true. Of course we don't greet each other on crowded streets, and when I've been on the busy streets in northern towns and cities, they too don't greet each other. When walking in my...