@cliffjpereira@Transit_Jam I can’t get taxis from the airport anymore. The cabs feel old and rickety and the drivers hurtle along at breakneck speed often with 3 mobiles on the dashboard. AirPort Express then get a cab seems much safer!
Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay
Nor an offence for which they should be penalised
But a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community.
Please RT if you agree
@NoContextBrits I used to teach in London and we took some secondary kids to Wales on camp. They saw their first cow and said “What the f&*k is that sir?” I told them it was a cow and that’s where burgers and milk come from. They were mortified and swore they’d never touch beef again.
When a person of culture meets a populist dog whistler, the outcome is sublime.
The late great Jonathan Miller here, making the argument that Stuart Rose made against Braverman the other day, just decades earlier.
It’s all about leadership.
The craziest thing just happened at dinner. I’m at a ramen shop owned by Thai people in Oakland dressed as power rangers, when a woman comes rushing in saying she wasn’t safe—and a man came running in after her and puts her in a chokehold.
The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/