There's only one mode of public transport in London that's completely empty during the rush hour. Jago Hazzard has been to ride on it. He finds it a fun day out, but little use as a form of public transport. You can support Jago Hazzard's videos via his Patreon page.
Mon 9th
21:41
Private Eye's Literary Review: "A 17-year-old writing in his public school's magazine 50 years ago"
As I usually point out before criticising Private Eye, to establish my credentials, I have bought every issue of the magazine since I went to university in York in October 1978. (Before that I couldn't, because no one stocked it in Market Harborough.) The Eye's strength at the moment is its investigations. The humour, by contrast, increasingly feels like the product of a sausage machine: feed in the week's events, turn the handle and out it comes. And as for the columnists and regular features, they are often a source of weakness. I've had a go at The Agri Brigade ...
Josh Self says the rise of Reform could consume Kemi Badenoch and then the Conservative Party: "As Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch has the privilege of interrogating the prime minister every Wednesday afternoon. And yet Farage can probably corral more support with a single TikTok (addressed to his one million followers) than Badenoch with her six scattergun PMQs. The bottom line is this: even before the English council elections, when Reform could evince serious strides, Farage is a far more visible (and effective) critic of the Labour government than Badenoch, the de jure opposition chief." "Important issues are being obscured ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 9 DECEMBER 2024 Seafield Road, Dundee - closed from its westmost end (in cul-de-sac) extending for a distance of no more than 20 metres in an easterly direction to facilitate a site access for a new housing development until November 2025. Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed until April 2025 for construction works. Douglas Street (Blinshall Street to Brown Street) - temporary traffic lights until April 2025 for construction works. Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed until April ...
The Guardian claims that the safety of tap water in the UK could be at risk because water companies are unable to use products to clean it, with industry insiders telling them that all the laboratories that test and certify the chemicals have shut down. The paper says that people in the industry have called it a "Brexit problem" because EU countries will share laboratory capacity from 2026, meaning that if the UK was still in the EU, water companies would be able to use products that passed tests on the continent. However, UK rules mean products cannot be tested ...
