‘What wrong with you?’ Terrified pedestrian asks dangerous Lime bike rider skidding past her on pavement opposite St Thomas’s Hospital, London. Other pedestrians subjected to people riding bikes at speed & close passing them when they have green man to cross road. @ShabanaMahmood
I’m hoping the Oxford St situation might bring to a head the need to get a grip on London cyclist behaviour. Red light observance is about 25%. As a pedestrian, I am far more nervous crossing a cycle lane than a road.
Cyclists are continuing to ride along the newly pedestrianised section of Oxford Street, despite being asked to dismount.
Around seven security staff have been stationed near Oxford Circus, calling out to cyclists to get off their bikes, with mixed success.
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Our sister podcast @MyTCpod The Dig! has returning guests, like this week's, Chris Cantrill, the winner of this year's Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe, plus my son and producer, John, and me, chatting and talking nonsense.
I know, but give it a go!
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So a lot to unpack here, but definitely the wildest medical thing I’ve seen. It was, as you can imagine, an extremely distressing time and I was being both son and doctor just desperately trying their best. A big thank you to Tim and the BBC
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My new podcast “Public Apology” with @edcmpbl and Sophie Garrad is out now! The first two episodes cover the Profumo affair and the various scandals of the boyband Blue - available anywhere you get your pods!
If you were young in 2001, or weren’t even born yet, it can be hard to imagine what 9/11 felt like. The shock of that beautiful, cloudless morning. The heartbreak of the families whose loved ones were taken with such swiftness and cruelty. The realization that the forces of malevolence and violence were closer, and the future less certain, than we knew.
But in the days that followed, we felt something else, too. Pride in the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, and the passengers who had stormed the cockpit. Admiration for the men and women who left behind lives of comfort to serve their country. A deep resolve that nothing would break the will of a truly United States of America.
Today Michelle and I are remembering those we lost that day, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed. We pray for their families. And we hope Americans everywhere remember the true lesson of 9/11: that we can survive even our darkest days as long as we move forward as one nation and one people.