People have mentioned this before - I really need to try it - looks great. Thanks!

Love it - haven’t been for a while but used to take the kids for rice balls when they were younger

And if she is in some incredibly unusual situation where she bought this 5 bed Georgian townhouse for 25p in the 1950s when she worked down the laundry and now doesn’t have a penny to her name for a modest tax… she still owns a £2million home! She can always move or borrow against its value to stay.

Also the idea, even in London, a £2m house was once a cheap/basic workers house is not really true. £2m is still a lot and buys say a fine Islington townhouse that has always been the reserve of the relatively well off. If granny is lucky enough to have one she can pay. Worse case equity-release.

If you can’t change then decent waterproof overcoat and overtrousers (eg pertex or goretex) warm jacket under, gloves, buff, overshoe covers/gators does the job

Looks like a good list although I’m more giving up on full rain PPE & now tend to just wear gym clothes if it’s raining, accept I get soaked & shower/change at work. For me: Gloves/buff/raincoat/sacrificial trainers + a full change of clothes/shoes! 😂

It’s one of the reasons LTNs are so important because they are carrot and stick at the same time. They provide safe area-wide active alternatives and fast bus routes whilst sending private traffic the long way around. But much more stick still needed on parking, road pricing, tax etc.

Sure but even great cycle infra can tend to take switchers from PT rather than cars if conditions aren’t right. The key is *also* to make driving harder more expensive & less convenient. You have to change the whole balance weighing the decision to drive not just expect ingrained habits to change

This argument just won’t die chiefly because it offers a superficial solution that doesn’t offend anyone & requires few hard choices. London is living proof you can’t solve traffic with public transport - it has world class PT & awful congestion. Good PT is essential but not sufficient.

I don’t know their process tbh, I’m not a Green Party member - I’d assume so but the benefits of him being candidate in Brighton is obvious as he is local and has name recognition there as the previous Labour MP.

That’s the one. I can see the electoral expediency on both sides - it’ll further his ambitions after being ejected from standing by Labour & give the Greens a seat he’ll probably win in Brighton but it is difficult to see much of a serious commitment to wider green politics there.

Not sure - appears to be a fine grit but seems effective to me. Just glad they bother.