Vulnerability on the roads It is more than 12 ears ago, but my life was changed by being involved in a road traffic accident while cycling home from work. This year I am protesting for the safety of vulnerable road users, not just cyclists, by taking part in the World Naked Bike Ride in both …
Category: Politics
Luddites
Luddites My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 17 June 2017 In our back garden are five posts . These short posts are older than our hose, …
Antisport
Antisport My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 12 May 2012 Last Thursday I watched the lighting of the Olympic torch on TV. How anti- sport can …
A Rotten Councillor
A Rotten Councillor My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 3 May 2012 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. On Christmas Day 1977, the Sex Pistols played their last …
Kakocracy
Kakocracy My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 1 May 2012 Britain is back in recession. This was yesterday’s headline. In the first quarter of 2012 Britain …
The world is going crazy
Another blog which was written in the period in which I retired, this one the main draft was a month ago. Political confusion continues. In the US the President, Donald Trump, continues to hold rallies as if he were electioneering despite it being under a year since he was elected. I continue to be unesy …
Cladding
It would take extreme circumstances for aluminium to ignite, but the conditions in Grenfell Tower were nothing if not extreme.
