At around six this morning I joined the picket line at Finsbury Park station. It was still dark, and the men and women on strike were gossiping about who might scab. I asked a slightly official looking woman if she was in charge. “We’re all in charge she replied, we’re all RMT.” In fact both [...]
Here’s the final paragraph from an online Telegraph article on the tube strike: Having trouble getting to work? Please share your tales of travel woe below. For readers who live outside London, this is your chance to gloat about your trouble-free commute. Who said conservatives don’t have a sense of humour? Yes, vent your anti-union anger if [...]
For the last two years or so, I have been engaging in a dastardly plot to destroy the Tory party. Yes, by writing silly outraged-liberal letters to my Conservative MP – to which she must respond – on matters she ultimately doesn’t care about, I’ll hopefully waste enough Tory time and resources to destroy the [...]
There’s a lot to hate about cars. In the centuries to come after the great oil crash, when archaeologists are poring over the remains of our society (presumably by wind-up torchlight), some of the most powerful symbols of our mind-boggling wastefulness will be the images of endless traffic jams, hundreds upon thousands of sterile gas-guzzling [...]
