Thank you! She's doing a Camps International trip in 2027 to Cambodia - one of those where teenagers go and Do Practical and Useful Things for Impoverished Communities - so it's fundraising… (View Post)

The nice people/nasty people division is fundamental to immigration though. The political problem isn't the numbers - literally noone minds students from New Zealand being here; hardly anyone mi… (View Post)

My 14-year old daughter* is doing a sponsored coast to coast bike ride the weekend after next, so I have an unusually heightened sense of cycle safety at the moment (not least after the headmaster at… (View Post)

But - if the infrastructure you describe is as good as you say - he is presumably a rarity? Matt's point is completely true - cyclists use well-designed infrastructure which make their journeys … (View Post)

I did politics as part of my degree. One of the modules was taken by David Marquand, ex-SDP MP. He made the point - using the graph below - that the Conservatives by the 1983 election were at the poi… (View Post)