mamasnark on Twitter: “Basically, Trump is what would happen if the comments section became a human and ran for president.”
Touché: If you don’t watch the extensive foreign reporting we provide, it must be partly our fault. We have to look for new ways to tell the story – did you see our recent interactive online package that asked viewers to make the choices refugees have to make? Several of my colleagues – Marie Colvin […]
Nice thing to do: for the creators of one of the most sampled ‘break beats’ in history This past February, a UK-based music fan named Martyn Webster created “The Winstons Amen Breakbeat Gesture,” a GoFundMe campaign established to repay the group for their lasting contribution to music. Webster began the fundraiser after watching a brief […]
Ruth Hardy points out the huge disparity between the content of David Cameron’s drive for permanent austerity in the UK, and the rather more lavish surroundings he made the speech from. State events always have, and perhaps require, a certain pomp and ceremony about them, but to stand there at a “golden lectern” pronouncing on […]
New access point at the local park. Still no good, even if slightly easier to lift the bike over than the older kissing gates.
Cycling to work can bring you through lovely places. Even on a dull morning in November.
[..] only one failed the “simple pleasure” test. Most just rode and enjoyed themselves with their colleagues in the day clothes that they wore at the meeting, just as one should when cycle commuting. Just one felt the need to dress up like a complete dork in the high viz vest and helmet that he […]
The last time I read of a similar experiment, it indicated that cars/taxis were the worst for this. Here, being in a car is best. Although, the experimenter only tried one trip in each mode for 30 minutes duration. It was along the same road though. A proper study might be worth doing. The findings […]
