Bike helmets

bike-helmets

If the reader will excuse my apparent sudden bout of Anglophilia, I should wish to point out a hilarious article by London’s mayor Boris Johnson on bicycle helmets.
In my efforts to do the right thing, I have ended up giving offence to both opposing factions. As soon as I started to wear a helmet, I [...]

A parliamentarian with principle


Sounds like an oxymoron, but here it isn’t. The British shadow home secretary, David Davis of the Conservative party, has resigned to protest the attempts by prime minister Gordon Brown to extend the period that police can hold terror suspects before charging them to 42 days.

In his eloquent speech enumerating the various encroachments of the [...]

I want to “ride” my bicycle…

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Robert Stewart, 51, has been sentenced to three years probation after he was found attempting to have sex with his bicycle in his bedroom by cleaners at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr (UK). They knocked on the door several times and being there was no reply they used a master key to come in [...]

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