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Bizarre Bicycle Blogging

Highly regarded cycle store Velorution has posted something bizarrely horrible and horribly bizarre on their widely-read Velorution cycling blog. It’s a hard to follow rant that seems to be slamming immigrant communities for driving badly and not understanding cyclists, also slamming the traffic police for …

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West London Crackdown On NHS Freebies

Whilst “free at the point of use” is a fundamental value of the NHS one West London hospital is bucking up its ideas about treating foreign patients who are not entitled to free healthcare on the NHS by employing a “stablize and discharge” policy. At …

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Weekend Round-Up

Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been resolving to train for the marathon next year: Draconian new litter laws for motorists are to be piloted in London. The London Cycling Campaign are worried by a delay in new safety legislation for HGVs. Now BA pisses …

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Extra, Extra

The Intelligent Transport Society (now there’s a silly title for an organisation if ever we heard one) has anointed TfL ‘clever clogs of the year’ for its iBus system. East London could become a new Amsterdam. Um, that’s in terms of usable waterways, of course. …

Week Around the -ists

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on …

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Londonomics: Independence Day

Recently we’ve been doing some research on Scotland, and while we haven’t come to any firm conclusions on the West Lothian question, it has prompted us to wonder – would London be better off as an independent country? We’d keep more of our tax money …

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A Bitter Pill: Back Street Abortions

It may be 40 years since the Abortion Act legalised terminations but a BBC Radio 5 Live investigation suggests that modern day “back street abortions” are easily found in London. Thankfully, we’re not talking struck off doctors and knitting needles but Chinese herbal remedies from …

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Weekend Round-Up

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend: Today is Remembrance Sunday which actually falls on 11th November – Armistice Day. The Queen and other Royals attended the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall last night. The Ceremony of Remembrance and Cenotaph Parade take place …

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Divided London?

The statisticians are at it again. Trying to connect A-B but, just for fun, popping into every shop along the way. Sketching trends with a pencil as there is insufficient data to ink them in. Reading significance into very little. Missing the point. A new …

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London: Statisticians’ Nightmare

New figures released yesterday show, well, they show that London is pretty much doing what it always does: changing. Quite how is not entirely apparent. The newspapers managed to get some headline footage out of the statistics – the Daily Mail even ran a story …

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What is your London?

We are the people who live in London. Some of us are born here and some of us will die here. Some of us have been here forever and some came here yesterday. Some of us will stay forever, like it or not. We have …