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We pay little tax compared to most other OECD countries:

We do ok, helped in no small part from the EU forcing us to improve in the late 90s and early 2000s. "Strong National Performance The 2025 results confirmed that bathing water quality across England remains high: · 417 waters (92.9%) achieved an Excellent, Good, or Sufficient classification...

The EA have re-started inspections on sewages works, bringing some responsibility to the issue that was severely lacking under the Tories. This required recruiting more EA officers. Actual action.

And: I get the impression that some here think it quite important.

Wizard of Oz remake not looking promising:

Kudos to diy chain B&Q for their support of Pride Month- not a single straight piece of wood in the shop.

Watched it in the 90s but not since. Modern Uk comedy worth watching: Friday Night Dinner - superb. Give it an episode or two to get used to it. Ghosts - better than the US version.

The impact of cars is not just the wear and tear on roads though. The cost of health impacts, deaths and injury from collisions, and congestion all impose costs. Estimated £42b from casualties and injuries. Physical inactivity: £7.2b Congestion (wasted time): £42b An £17b is needed to fix the...

£2.4m is peanuts compared to what is spent on car infrastructure. A project that a certain member here might be working on cost about £85m: https://www.a164jockslodge.co.uk/scheme-details/ And all it will do is encourage more induced demand. They keep building more homes on the outskirts of...

I'm sure this is very important.

Poynton is a famous example of this, although there was some controversy when a blind person was knocked down by a car in this area. Here is the obituary of the designer: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/18/ben-hamilton-baillie-obituary "He said: “I have my severe doubts of the...

Oh, I get that as well. But that prejudice comes from what I discussed further up.

Evidence is a far better guide than the right wing media. But I get why people don't like facts that conflict with their world view. The number of times I read abut a cyclist getting killed on the road, and people in the comments section complain about cyclists going through red lights etc. You...

You are still wrong. Car drivers break the highway code more than cyclists. The evidence is not on your side.

Just this morning on the way to work, I nearly got wiped out by a car cutting the corner on a junction, as they turned right into the road I was on. But such things don't get reported or even register in people's heads as breaking the highway code. Neither does the speeding that about half of...

So you think its ok that cars killed 1602 people in 2024? Cyclists cause 3. Cars make cities worse, not just endangering people, but make them more unpleasant places to be. They generate noise, dust, and take up far more space per person than any other personal transport. The current state of...

Saying it doesn't make it so. I get why you think it, but multiple studies have shown it isn't the case.

That really isn't true. Here is reference to one of the studies that found this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists-break-far-fewer-road-rules-than-motorists-finds-new-video-study/ We just ignore the times drivers break the highway code more than cyclists...

Drivers are more likely to break the highway code. And cars are subsidised in car dominated areas. Cycle paths can be a negative cost. Ie. They grow the economy more than they cost.