Low Popularity Zones

BY JACK WATSON Louise Haigh, Labour’s transport minister, has expressed her support for low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), which would empower local councils nationwide to establish 20mph zones in urban areas. This initiative coincides with similar restrictions being introduced in Wales, where speed limits have sparked backlash from residents and road users. Following a poll published in The Telegraph showing that 70 percent of the population … Continue reading Low Popularity Zones

You Vill Be Heppy

BY JOHN DREWRY Billions of people are probably now familiar with the promise ‘You will own nothing, and you will be happy’. When I first heard it, I remember reacting with a mixture of incredulity, indignation and derisory humour. I thought, that is the aspiration of a madman, and is definitely irrational. Even if Herr Schwab helped to manage the dastardly realisation of ensuring we … Continue reading You Vill Be Heppy

An Armchair General Writes …

BY PAUL T HORGAN I do not have a TV Licence so I did not see the newscaster at the BBC gently reminding viewers that the M4 motorway up which Wagner commander Yevgeny Prigozhin was advancing with 25,000 battle-hardened veterans was in fact the road from Rostov to Moscow, and not the one that runs from Cardiff to London. Prigozhin made good distance along the … Continue reading An Armchair General Writes …

Just Don’t Get It

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There are certain words and phrases that should stand out as obvious red flags. People who talk in a paranoid fashion about “they” all the time, or warn you to “not use Google and use DuckDuckGo instead”. Those who bring up the “fifth plane” whenever 9/11 is mentioned. Or those whose default position for government spending strategy is “the magic money tree” … Continue reading Just Don’t Get It