People she disagrees with are part of ideological capture, whereas she was just surrounded by like-minded colleagues.

There were two major waves of Huguenot migration to London.

I think he is trying (cackhandedly) to position himself as in some sense progressive - ok with much older migration waves and gay bars - to give him space to be racist about black people.

I appreciate the federal govt is almost unreformable but states have their own elected bodies and control that system.

I find
1. People who haven't tried an ebike don't realise how much they would love it
2. They compare the sticker price of a top end ebike to a low end used car without considering TCO

42 year old web UI lead here and thinking maybe being an electrician would be fun?

oh my god

Well first it's not hypothetical, there's constant back and forth about the organisation of production. And even when it is, that's the Spectre of Communism. They've been hyperaware of it for 2 centuries. Even the Spectre of the 1970s Inflation is invoked constantly.

The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.

I do get it - driving in heavy traffic is horrible, some people need to drive, some people prefer driving. Change is hard and scary. You have a right to drive! But everyone has a right to the city, we have to share it. And sharing can even benefit drivers.

2 years after that, a 22 year old woman cyclist called Emma was hit by an HGV, dragged under it across the entire junction, and died of her wounds in hospital. We remain in regular contact with her parents. That junction now, finally, has cycle lanes. A damned good thing for safety.

Finally a horrible one, safety. Recently Anas Sarwar was on about how dangerous cycle lanes are. As convenor of GoBike I had a terrible job once, looking through our emails for the time my predecessor advised the council that George V bridge was dangerous.

I understand that it feels bad to lose parking spaces, but again getting people away from cars is the only way to leave parking spaces for people who actually need them.

A similar problem with parking: a tenement close will have 16 or even 24 adults living in it. You can maybe park 3 cars outside? If everyone in Glasgow tried to get about by car, nothing would move and there would be nowhere to park.

And if we take the space away from parking, we've actually added capacity to the road!

I understand that it is counter-intuitive, but taking space away from cars speeds up traffic. You can fit a lot more people on a bus, tram, train or bike lane than you can in a car lane, so getting people to switch leaves the road for people who need it.