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The endless line at Geneva Airport to get through passport control for British passport holders. No queue at all for EU or Swiss citizens pic.twitter.com/WwPbgDcpqo — Jon Sopel (@jonsopel) December...
View ArticleThe circuit breaks
In the Times, Giles Coren explains why he has pulled the plug on his electric car. As I watch my family strike out on foot across the fields into driving rain and gathering darkness, my wife holding...
View ArticleOxford Anti-Fascists, sticking it to the Man by stopping demonstrations about...
Fight the Power, Oxford Antifa! “On Saturday 18 February, fascists and climate deniers are planning a “community day” in Oxford to exploit concerns and tensions around traffic filters. We won’t allow...
View ArticleShould cycling be banned?
I have been a keen cyclist for most of my adult life. I know what you’re thinking, “Grow up get a car.” Ah, but I am ahead of you on that one; I have both. Anyway, the cycling did originally come about...
View ArticleIdeology and Insanity on the New York subway
The first few dozen grownup books I read were an odd selection. As I sampled them almost at random from my parents’ bookshelves, I became dimly aware that my parents were different people from each...
View ArticleFrom Boss to Blob: what the State brings to the Party
In the old days, many U.S. cities were ruled by political machines. They were corrupt. But, by and large, they swept the streets and kept crime down. Because “Raise Dead” is a difficult spell to cast...
View ArticlePlaying the NHS card does not always win
Katie Morley is the Telegraph’s “Consumer Champion”. People who feel they have been mistreated by companies write to her and she puts their tales of woe in the paper and threatens the company with even...
View ArticleThe mayor of London reads Leviathan and applies its lessons to cheese
Hobbes was right. We must have government. If men were to try to live without ‘a common Power to keep them all in awe’, life would be ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’, there would be ‘a...
View ArticleUnderground and overground
The recent and highly contested decision by London mayor Sadiq Khan to expand ULEZ (ultra-low emissions zone) from central to the outer London boroughs has already caused considerable political...
View ArticleKeeping you safe from travelling on the Hogwarts Express
“End of the line? Harry Potter train waits for ruling on Hogwarts route”, reports the BBC. Steam journeys on the Harry Potter railway line could grind to a halt if a challenge to safety rules fails....
View ArticleSad about all those people killed in the Lockerbie air disaster. I guess the...
On the 35th anniversary of the Lockerbie air disaster, First Minister @HumzaYousaf has expressed sympathies to those who lost loved ones on board Pan Am Flight 103 and on the ground. He also paid...
View ArticleA magnificent work of Swedish engineering – a pulse jet powered sledge on a...
This is c. 7 years old, but it is quite marvellous and a tribute to the great tradition of engineering in Sweden. A video done by a Swedish chap who built himself a pulse-jet powered sledge or ‘ice...
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