The idiots at the UK Department of Transport have released a report (pdf), “Contributory factors to road accidents”. It is an insult to human nature and intelligence. Not surprisingly, Paul Marston, that skunk at the Daily Telegraph, has purloined certain statistics to make the tired old argument against speed cameras. The report is based on accident reports compiled by those buffoons at the Police. (Let’s not dwelve on the semantics that road accidents don’t just happen and therefore are not accidental). When there is a [...]

Wilfred Thesiger 1910-2003 From his autobiography excerpted in the Guardian: “Even as a boy I recognised that motor transport and aeroplanes must increasingly shrink the world and irrevocably destroy its fascinating diversity. My forebodings have been amply fulfilled. Package tours now invade the privacy of the remotest villages; the transistor, blaring pop music, has usurped the place of the tribal bard”

I am talking about the fellow on the left. Source