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I got shouted at today. Riding along the shared use path by Millennium bridge, I approached two dog walkers side by side. As I went to pass them on the right one of their dogs wandered into my path, so I left the path and passed them on the grass. No problem, except that a [...]

Child abuse a la the Richard Dawkins is more difficult than he thinks, or else I wish I had something of what he’s got. In this article – Guardian: An atheist goes to Greenbelt – atheist Jessica Reed gos to the christian festival Greenbelt, and finds largely what she came for. She starts off very [...]

Simon Singh, one of my favourite writers, has got himself in a sticky situation with some chiropractors. The British Chiropractic Association is suing him for libel, after he wrote that it “happily promotes bogus treatments”. Sensible people would have preferred that the BCA, which believes that virtually all ailments can be cured by hitting your [...]

A new government internet game encourages people to hammer the heads of children without cycle helmets. Violent films are age-restricted in case they feed ideas to vulnerable minds, but the new, fairground shoot-em-up style Knockin’ Noggins game gives 10 points for every non-helmeted child that you hit with a big mallet, as soon as they [...]

Baroness Gardner of Parkes (Con) recently spoke in the House of Lords “To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to reduce the number of fatalities of cyclists caused by large turning vehicles.” It wasn’t long before Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab) responded with My Lords, while agreeing that all people who equip and [...]

First, read this News Article in Cycling Weekly Of all the news stories I’ve read, this has got to be one of the most disgusting. Marie Vesco was riding her bike in a straight line along the road, when a driver, who admitted he had seen Miss Vesco, overtook her while making a left turn, [...]

This afternoon, I went over to St George’s Church in Poynton, where I played Joseph as part of a ‘Christmas Story Trail’. The church is got up with lots of props and school groups wander around, so they can see the holy family, shepherds etc play out the Christmas story and talk to them. It’s [...]

Today, I went into the bank to pay in a cheque, and got told that my overdraft allowance was about to be decreased, since I’ve been graduated over a year now. Except, of course, that I only graduated this July since I took a year out in the middle of my degree. What’s more, I’ve [...]