Posts Tagged ‘ segregation ’

Way back in the mid 1990s, the buzzword was multimedia. Apparently it was going to change the way we did everything - a bit like the laser disk had done, only better. The joke going around the office was that there was an alternative translation of this: Multimeejya molti-m-iːdiə - n. Hindi word, translating as “technology with...
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On Thursday morning I had a breakfast meeting in Gosforth, so I was driving to work. There’s a stretch of road leading out of Tynemouth where the speed limit is 60mph: I was doing a bit less than this, watching the cyclist in the lay-by… who then rode straight out and diagonally across the road...
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Last week I had one of those days on the bike - repeated attempts by drivers to find the most creative way to kill me, while making it look like an “accident”. The best of these was the learner driver, who bounced off the kerb several times right in front of me, before driving...
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In the last week or so there’s been quite a discussion going about what people should campaign for if we’re to get more people in the UK to ride bikes rather than drive cars. The discussion can be summarised as, in the blue corner : Cyclists and so-called cyclists’ groups should stop being such a...
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