Yes please. At this point, we need local councils to lead this as it’s just impossible at a parent or school level. We need the infrastructure changes too as I can’t see us getting there without it. It takes just one car driver to enforce their right of way on a road if it’s just open
I really resonate with this article as a parent and really want to give more independence but I think car brain really does get in the way. We cycle to school and people have bigger cars on smaller roads, don’t give enough space, park dangerously and just don’t seem to care about cyclists or pedestrians. Even cycling home today by myself I almost got knocked off so how can I let my child face that by themselves? It’s a vicious circle them that more people drive and the problem gets worse. Even going to the local park we have to cross or cycle on roads at some point. Most of the other parents drive, even if living really close. I’ve also had parents “telling me off” or commenting for letting him cycle on the road in front of me. Feel like I can’t win.
Half a battered sausage, half cod (both shared with the other half) and chips covered in salt and their homemade onion vinegar
We’re very aware in the UK but it’s not too easy. We have some the oldest housing stock in the world. We don’t have central air with no real way to retrofit so it would have to be one room at a time. Our windows aren’t designed to house those units I see in NY. We have to rely on very inefficient portable units so I only use it on the really hot days. Energy prices are still high after Russia’s invasion. People are adding proper units when extending but only the rich can really afford that.
This is why I happily pay for channel 4 plus, even though I don’t use their app for viewing all that much
Gaming and wanking
Wait, the police are going after a royal, I thought that was impossible?!? (speaking from the UK where we clearly have a rapist and paedophile…)
Very good idea. I could skip the tank and have a sign saying “This e-bike battery may explode on contact. Hit me and we’ll find out together”
This is exactly my experience when taking my child to school on the bike. I’ve literally seen every issue and had people saying we shouldn’t be on the road from their unnecessarily massive car, with one kid in, parking on the no parking areas and hitting 40 on the school street beforehand where we have roughly 900 children at the primary school (ages 4 to 11), so not like they should be careful or anything with their killing machines…
Around me, any places with activities (golf, bowling, climbing, laser quest, gyms, trampoline parks, theme parks, etc), especially if they have a cafe. If they host children’s birthdays, it’s all done by teenagers it seems.
Fast food places don’t seem to have teenagers like they used to, it’s mostly older immigrants so guessing they’ll work harder for less money.
Who said it was a problem? It’s funny because you could be saying that is too low or too high, who knows!
It was more of a class and misogyny problem, which due to cultural reasons these groups of men were able to take advantage. There’s a story of police being called to a disturbance and found a group of older guys (mostly south Asian but there was a white guy too) with two teenage (I think about 15) drunk, working class girls. Instead of stepping back and thinking there’s something very strange going on here and seeing those girls as victims, who were vulnerable, potentially being groomed and obviously being taken advantage of, they arrested the girls for drunk and disorderly, were apologetic to the men and didn’t even record the names of those men.
Statistically in the UK, most grooming and sexual violence is some by family members or family friends, against both boys and girls, and are perpetrated by white people simply because the UK is still 83% white! If any of these people truly cared about vulnerable children, they would focus on more than just these grooming gangs but that doesn’t rile up their base, get more likes and give them more support. Yeah, these horrible men need to be arrested and put away but let’s set up systems that try to prevent these children being harmed in the first place.
This article is talking about the wider problems of children not being seen as victims, and agencies not communicating with each other. Whether it’s a black boy arrested for carrying drugs or a white girl ignored as being “promiscuous”, there are systemic issues in our system that need to be addressed.
The great British project!
As much as I hate the austerity cuts across the board. I believe this is a good idea as long as the money stays in the UK and has proper procurement rules, which I would trust labour to do better than the Tories, and can’t see Reform or Greens being as good.
It would lead to growth as a lot of that money would go to wages of UK employees and come back as taxes. Plus we need to be realistic about not relying on the US. We have strong university education and should build back up our engineering sectors.
It was illegal but not enforced at all or followed by the locals, so not followed by anybody else either. During the day was fine but in the evening and night it was like there was no law
Really? And did they self regulate their fees? Oh wait no, it took EU enforcement to cut down their fees and stop businesses passing them onto customers. The EU also enforced more security regulation, and more use of those by the banks themselves using these credit card processors who washed their hands of levels of security
Yeah, went to Spain, and woke up with a sore throat and really smelly clothes. Took me back to before the ban and realised how good that was for everyone
I use a curve card which links to existing credit cards. Their app allows me to add it as a payment option for NFC on my fairphone with /e/os
And thank god it changed back. Of all the issues in my life, having to look at a red passport once every few months affected me so much that you can’t even imagine the hardship. That and something about wonky bananas that I’ve been told was a massive problem that’s only going to be fixed if I vote for that party which definitely represents me as I can have a beer with it’s leader. I’m guessing he’ll buy the round given his wealth that the woke London elite keep trying to take but he’s stood up to them
I could only watch 25 minutes (so far) of the doctors in Gaza documentary the BBC refused to show, because I cried at least three times. The multiple children being carried to try to get help with serious looking injuries. The solar panels being destroyed which meant premature children died. The blood soaked floor around the ambulance. The absolute pain of the doctor talking about when a nurse brought in his daughter who was killed. The people watching the bombing of Gaza through those fucking telescope things you get at the beach or from tall buildings like it’s a tourist attraction. The guys being stripped naked, blindfolded and led about in a stadium.
An artist said a few words at a concert that is crazily expensive to go to, which doesn’t even meet the threshold of hate speech (in my view).
Where should we focus our attention and outrage I wonder?!?