Early yesterday evening, on Wimpole Street, London W1, one of our number of five cyclists was threatened by a baseball bat-wielding black cab driver who objected to us taking the lane around a busy junction on a narrow road during the evening rush hour. The incident was immediately phoned through to the police, who met [...]

There’s a lovely photo in the Guardian today, gracing a story on tax evasion. Taken by Luke Macgregor, the image is of Britain’s bookkeeper-in-chief George Osbourne, and it captures the essence of the man (currently) responsible for bleeding the UK economy dry. Osbourne’s PRs will not be happy, so I suggest that the Reuters-contracting freelance [...]

Ride: Waterlink Way and Hilly Fields Summer Fayre When: Saturday 22 June 2013 Meet: 10:00 @ Cutty Sark Gardens, SE10 9LW (by foot tunnel entrance) My final contribution to NotBikeWeek™ 2013, brought to you by the esteemed South East London Commissariat for Social Cycle Rides Planning (aka the Dog & Bell Crew), will be a [...]

When my friend Terry Glavin writes… “The Guardian’s comically doctrinaire Glenn Greenwald is the Glenn Beck for people who fancy themselves too clever for Fox News.” …you know it’s not going to end well for his target. Now Terry doesn’t address the substance of the NSA-Prism scandal – for it is a scandal, if largely [...]

I see that Revolutionary Communist Party stalwart, genocide denier, PR executive and self-styled “first class idiot” Fiona Fox has been awarded an OBE “for services to science”. At its peak the British Empire ruled half the globe. The revolution is permanent.

I see that Mary Mills, who is well known to us in the cycling and wider sustainable transport communities, has been deselected as a council candidate in what could be described as an endless night of the long knives in the Greenwich and Woolwich Labour Party. There is wailing and gnashing of teeth within the [...]

The data privacy scandal occupying the attention of everyone from the US president down to the most deranged Guardian-reading keyboard-worrier is at the same time both full of crap and a significant deal. We have long known that intelligence agencies have easy access to the servers of US-incorporated cloud providers, and a few relevant details [...]

With Britain’s cold, wet spring now a fading memory, we can all look forward to midsummer. Friday 21 June 2013 is the longest day of the year, and since time immemorial people of all faiths and none have marked the occasion of the summer solstice by rising to greet the dawn. London cyclists do this [...]

Wanker Wanker There’s a lot of it about. Weather and onanism, that is.

Do you see what I did there with the above headline? A disgraceful tabloid hack-like liberty it is, misrepresenting the call of Greater London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to take over responsibility for the benighted Greenwich and Woolwich Foot Tunnels following their mismanagement by Greenwich Council. “Greenwich Foot [...]