Roger Pinney
pinner60.bsky.social
Roger Pinney
@pinner60.bsky.social
Now retired BBC hack.
Odd headline. I saw Michael Sheen as Nye last week.
July 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Equally why are so many medical doctors religious?
July 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
There is no need to be rude
June 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
So you accept some risk is inevitable. The question then is where to draw the line. Is it reasonable to reduce the speed limit of 30 stretch of road where there has never been an accident? But keep a 40 in place at a blackspot?
June 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Do you accept that some risk is acceptable? If you don’t, then ban cars altogether. But I return to my original concern about lack of consistency. Different LAs seem to have adopted different views of risk (or more likely the implementation principles) We are left with a mess.
June 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The local democracy question is far more complicated and is the tightrope elected politicians walk.
June 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I suppose if I were implementing I would adopt an evidence based approach. If a stretch of road had a bad accident record or was near a school etc then no problem with 20.
June 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Not sure those are big factors on many of the roads people want to revert. Personally the most irritating thing about the 20s is the complete lack of consistency. A drive from Llandudno to Milford takes in four counties with four very different approaches.
June 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
*past
June 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you ask me whether the road passed my house should be closed to through traffic, I would say yes. Residents are not always the best judges.
June 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Surely having a proportionally bigger public sector is a political decision of the Welsh Govt. It could decide to shrink it and if proportionally smaller than England’s we’d be quids in.
June 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Ok but please allow me my delusions
May 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I think everyone is jumping to the wrong conclusion. Npt/Cdf to merge, Osp/Sca to merge and RGC to go fully pro. E and W to get equal funding. N get a reduced amount.
May 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Is there a link to the data?
April 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Errr. Aren’t theSingle Market and customs union tariff walls by another name?
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Are they paying their own way?
April 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Flog it on beeb 2
March 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Indeed
March 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM