A friend recently pointed out this 1973 essay on cars – The social ideology of the motorcar. It’s […]
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I want to demonstrate a similarity I’ve noticed between racism and bias against cyclists. Have you ever noticed […]
Air pollution from motor vehicles is harmful to humans but especially harmful to children. We know it can […]
Why do people feel the need to tell me this? It’s not my job to defend cyclists who […]
I’ve heard designers say the customer is not always right because if Henry Ford had asked his customers […]
I want to write about shared spaces. These are road spaces that everyone shares – pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, […]
It has been three years since we dispensed with the family car and I don’t regret it, not […]
Yesterday I did everything in my power to kill myself accidentally. It’s fortunate I survived because today is […]
Things didn’t go quite according to plan today. We booked the nearest car-club car this morning but it […]
I copied the following factsheet from George Monbiot’s blog, Car Sick. He is encouraging people to share it: I've […]
I have just read the most extraordinary articles and need to have another rant to calm myself down. […]
I got completely drenched cycling the kids to school this morning. But as I was peddling along and struggling to see […]
An article appeared in the Guardian on boxing day which I somehow missed and just read this morning. […]
I just read that a wealthy Aberdeen oil tycoon and his wife have donated £10 million to the […]
We took the kids to see Star Wars today. On the cycle ride home I had to dash […]
Yesterday I went into town because it’s Elizabeth’s birthday on New Year’s Eve and I had to get […]
A friend sent me this article about a Scottish councillor who was recently fined for urinating in public. […]
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the electric car and why I couldn’t start it on […]
My father arrived late last night and so I booked the Co-wheels car club car to collect him […]
We are in Pitlochry in Perthshire, which is in the middle of Scotland. We caught the train from […]
