How about spending £300million and creating three years of misery to cut congestion on Britain’s number one motorway, then bring it back by cutting the speed limit? You really couldn’t make it up… It took three years to widen what had been one of Britain’s most congested sections of Motorway on the M1 that goes [...]
18 February 2010 – 1:34 pm
They say that what goes around comes around and what goes up must surely come down. But sometimes these things happen embarrassingly fast and that is certainly the case for the red faced boys in blue on Merseyside… Within a week of the Liverpool police delight at their first arrest using a remote controlled spy [...]
25 January 2010 – 10:43 am
It would seem that our real Big Brother in Britain plans to use unmanned spy drone cameras to look after us even better than before. Ah, how lovely you may think. But maybe not… Frankly, I am quite concerned by the idea of UK police using such high-tech spy-in-the-sky kit, currently deployed in war zones [...]
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Tagged Afghanistan, BAE Systems, FOI, Freedom of Information, Green and Pleasant Land, Guardian, Home Office, PCN, Penalty Charge Notice, Police, UAV, unmanned aerial vehicles, War zone
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21 January 2010 – 7:36 am
I am rarely surprised by the depths that a desperate politician will plunge to, while trying to justify action that stinks. In my experience this often happens when a plan for a government move is being pushed that is nothing more than state backed extortion or highway robbery – and that looks to most law [...]
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Tagged Bike parking tax, Danny Chalkley, free parking, Labour, Lib Dem, London's West End, Motorcycle, NTBPT, scooter, Tory council, trial parking tax, Westminster City Council
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23 December 2009 – 5:58 am
Buses, cars, vans and trucks have been stuck in a chaotic mess in London during the last two days. At surface level this seems to be due to an inch or so of snow and temperatures dropping just below freezing for a few hours – and a failure by our traffic managers to cope with [...]