It’s 1997 and coming up to Christmas and you live in Gateshead and your girlfriend lives in Atlanta.
Awkward? So whaddya do? This is what I did. I tried the internet (I was an early adopter - I still recall using Mosaic) and tried the phone lines and that was a hilarity. One numpty said, [...]
Posts under ‘Transport’
What’s really wrong with HS2.
Push-me Pull-me justice
If you’ve been paying attention over the last few years, it is clear how the elite see the rest of us. We are little more than farm yard animals to be cajoled and compelled and banned from doing things, lectured and hectored at will, and above all taxed. We maybe shot if it suits the government [...]
And so the madness starts…
More astute readers may have noticed I have been away for a week. Some may even have cared [/sob].
Anyway, I have been Elsewhere. Specifically the Lake District. Upon the return journey this afternoon (which was thankfully clear) overhead info boards down the M6 and M61 was displaying “helpful advice” for those planning on journeying to [...]
Let them eat cold pasties…
We really are supremely fucked. They (by which I mean Gideon, obviously) are putting VAT on pasties. Are we not cunticulated enough? Apparently (and this is weird) there is hell on about this in the South West of England despite the people who are really going to take a hit from this are Greggs who [...]
The Dead Budgie Sketch
I’ve just been down the road for a Coke and a packet of crisps. In the queue I glanced over the newspaper front pages. Paul has been proven 100% correct (see this and any number of other posts or comments by Paul here or Samizdata or elsewhere in which Paul regarded this budget as a [...]
The Ugliest…
I have long held the ugliest motor vehicle ever made was the Vanden Plas version of the Austin Allegro. Not that the Allegro was pretty in the first place but that front-end - truly lipstick on a pig territory.
Look away now or experience the true horror (this is not safe for children or those [...]
The Fiqh of Driving a Car
It’s quite long but well worth watching to get into the mindset of the salafi Muslim and the demented totality of their vision.
They are quite obsessed with sex aren’t they - the poor deranged bastards - so the traffic cop or the AA man shall steal your honour away. Dismal.
I got a question
Look, I don’t live in London any more, and here on Queensland’s sunny Gold Coast we don’t tend to be privy to all the little details of life in the Great Wen.
Now, answer me this:
If the routemasters are gone, the bendy’s ditto, and the new Borismasters are still to come into service then…….roll of drums……… [...]
Jeremy Clarkson - my thoughts
Following Clarkson’s recent outburst much Sturm und Drang has followed.
I have just one thing to say on it (I should have said this earlier perhaps but I was curious to see if I’d read it elsewhere…)
I haven’t so here goes.
Jeremy Clarkson is a very wealthy man who writes books and newspaper columns so [...]
Industry Against An Evil Tax. BBC readers not sure…
I have mentioned the iniquity of APD (air passenger duty) before…
This is excellent news and long overdue.
But the BBC comments are a cracker…
No one forces you to fly, so stop moaning and pay up, stay in the Uk or travel by road, rail or ferry.
I’ve choosen to stay in the UK for holidays for the [...]
You can take the skies away from us…
Not only can but already have done.
Passengers will have to pay up to 55 per cent more tax on flights from Monday when the Air Passenger Duty hike comes into effect.
Despite protests from airlines and countries who believe the tax banding system is unfair, the increase will come into effect, potentially pushing the price [...]
Classic cars are history?
This morning I saw a very old (black and white number plates) VW minibus parked down the road. A real hippy transportation device (it would have been quite old already parked outside some stoner’s gaff in Berkeley in ‘68). Of course then it would have been adorned with flowers and bad psychedelia and the CND [...]
This is the age of the train…
Remember those ads with Jimmy Saville in full child-molestation mode?
So they are still on about building a railway from London to Birmingham. Or specifically from Euston to New Street stations. This matters. I used to live in “London” (specifically in Mile End - which even if it is Zone 2 is probs two tube trips [...]
High Speed Fail
There has been for a while tremendous rumblings about a high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham. Paul Marks of this parish has voiced many concerns over the destruction of forcing this 100%-reflective-across-all-wavelengths-of-the-electromagnetic-spectrum pachyderm through the countryside and people’s lives. That is Paul’s take. This is mine…
It is slated to cost £30 billion. I have [...]
XL1
I’m no fan of hybrids but this is something else…
That is the VW XL1 diesel-electric hybrid and it does 313mpg!. Now that is something else. It’s only a two seater (but does have some luggage space) and it’s not too nippy (though 0-62mph in 11.9 isn’t exactly bad) but that’s just wow!
And I think [...]
