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Majority of reported hate crime is based on ethnicity, brown, black and mixed heritage. Religious hate crime is lower and most affects Muslims, Jews to a slightly lowers number and a small percentage of Hindus and Sikhs. Real or perceived atrocities committed by Muslim extremists and the state of Israel will influence numbers Anyone who has been to a protest against the war in Gaza will see mainly peaceful and good natured crowds including Jews against war. @CPR Dave stop making a fool of yourself. Corbyn cannot admit to being wrong. He sprouted nonsense that Russia was not responsible for the Salisbury poisoning, would not be contrite about the accusations of anti-Semitism, and is partly to blame for Brexit. He may be principled and a decent person but is not a Messiah and ran a poor campaign in the 2019 general election, a gift for Johnson. I expect he would have been pants in dealing with COVID, and Johnson set a low bar. I'm with Miss Jean Brody on the Spanish Civil War. It maybe not!

so what you are saying is that buses are more dangerous than cars and by extension of this cars should be allowed and buses not. Bizarre. I couldn't find definitive data but AI seems fairly plausable: Bus Driver Convictions & Safety (Per Mile Analysis) Lower Offence Rates: Research suggests taxi and bus drivers have some of the lowest rates of drink/drug driving convictions compared to other professions. High Accountability: Bus drivers are subject to stricter vocational licensing. Just one serious motoring offence can lead to the loss of their license to drive a Public Carrying Vehicle (PCV). Operating Pressures: Bus drivers operate large, heavy vehicles, often in built-up areas, with high mileage, which increases potential exposure to incidents. "Safe" Driver Perception: In surveys, bus drivers have been perceived as the safest drivers, though they face intense scrutiny regarding mobile phone use and traffic infractions. Private Driver Convictions & Safety (Per Mile Analysis) Higher Relative Risk: Passenger vehicles (private cars) are generally much more dangerous per mile than buses. Data indicates that in terms of fatal and serious injuries, cars are far higher risk per passenger mile than buses. Collision Frequency: While private drivers may not face the same professional consequences for minor infractions, they are involved in a much higher proportion of total road accidents. Driving Behavior: Private drivers are often involved in incidents related to distractions, whereas bus driver, while prone to fatigue, often have stricter monitoring systems.

Wow I've posted 19 times on the thread. Surprises me as I haven't a lot to say about the scheme itself although I did go off on a tangent due to blame being put on cyclists. Earl, you came in a little late and have had a few ding dongs and overtaken me by a couple The prize goes to Rockets with 46. Haven't we got better things to do with our lives, particularly as this scheme probably has little or no effect on us? Why don't we let those who live closer got on with the discussions. Give me a like if you agree, or a confused if you want me to post more. I'll abide with the majority.

What nonsense. It's social mobility. Huguenots moved to the East End and once they made a bob or two moved to more upmarket areas. Subsequently Jews. Now Bangladeshi, particularly making a pretty penny once the hipsters moved in. Antisemitism was a small factor and this was a generation or more ago. "Jewish people moved out of London's East End between 1900 and the 1950s primarily to escape overcrowded, impoverished conditions and seek better housing and improved social standing in the suburbs." I expect few of us living in the area have witnessed first hand antisemitism. We may well have seen racism against black, brown people and maybe Eastern Europeans. Anti Irish sentiment was still prevalent 30 years ago - partly due to the troubles but partly some British superiority complex encouraged by generations of lewd comedians, Glad that is behind us now. Why do you have to make such toxic comments? You'd be better off doing some research and educating yourself. Here's some reading: https://www.ideastore.co.uk/local-history/collections-and-digital-resources/user-guides/migration-and-communities-in-the-east-end You don't have to thank me.

I hear there is a task force on the oceans but I was confused to where it is going - Greenland? The EU or UK in view that the former has a new trade deal and no doubt the PM is after a new one. @Sephiroth The state sponsored killings in the US and Iran got me thinking. Whilst the scale is clearly different it's still hypocritical. Not fact checked but apparently several hundred people are killed each year in the 'States by law enforcement officers. in the UK it's around a couple so corrected for respective populations a couple of percent of the US figures.

He stirs things up and leaves chaos behind, like Johnson and Farage. For some reason people seem to like that even though it leaves society in a worse place. And our household budgets. There was a time when many of us admired politicians for their integrity. Most still have that, but some high profile ones including, after Musk, the second most powerful person in the world.....

Surely for cultural reasons the best bagels are in the East End. Although this random ranking, whilst having three in the East, does have one local to here! TBH I don't think I have ever had a proper bagel. I know the ones from the supermarkets come nowhere near. Helps if I attach the review https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/best-bagels-in-london

@Rockets it's good that you appreciate the benefits of active travel. I forgot to add that this could help address the obesity epidemic and the rise in Type 2 diabetes. Whilst clearly a separate thread you raised, and I discussed, segregated bicycle lanes. Per km you are 48 times more likely to be harmed cycling than driving. Motorcycling even higher https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5aa168ace5274a53c3f3eae8/pedal-cycle-factsheet-2017.pdf As said come and join us on the light side, you'd be an asset.

How many times do we have to go through this @Rockets To get people out of their cars, which reduces congestion, carbon emissions and improves air quality you have to have a mixture of measures - hard such as closing roads or road restrictions, cost, nudge, and incentives. Surely you understand the additional benefits of active travel, on physical and mental health. You can't be against this. With your knowledge on transport you would be such an asset if you campaigned to encourage less use of private cars and an increase in active travel. Concerning your cycling experience you spoke about two times you almost came a cropper. You were fortunate, I was knocked down twice once be a speeding car and once by a hire van. Neither gave me any where near enough room. But add to this four times being threatened by angry motorists, the sort of ones that drive up a bus lane and then cut across you, and other close shaves the most frightening being a bus off the Old Kent Road on the wrong side of the road, the classic bus cutting across you going South on Rye Lane, and similarly a bus on Catford Bridge (that time I did report it to the police). But every week I see speeding drivers and those that don't give you enough space. Perhaps you had a particularly good commuting route, and/or perhaps you are more oblivious to poor driving. To put this in context of course most drivers are responsible, and whilst I gave three examples of bus drivers this is a tiny percentage of those that I have shared the road with. So I don't agree that it is a new generation of cyclists who think that cycling is so dangerous they need segregation. It is the powers that be based on the evidence of cyclists killed or seriously injured by drivers. Personally I believe we should be able to share the road but this would mean a culture change where drivers understand that a cyclist in front of you has priority, and you should only overtake when there is sufficient space to give the cyclist getting on for a couple of metres. As per Highway Code, now, and before, certainly when you would have passed your driving test. I get that you don't understand that cyclists should normally adopt the primary position on urban roads, I have tried to explain this to you in the past but hey ho. And again this cyclist vs motorist nonsense you keep pedaling (nice bike link) is so unhelpful. Of course it was Sunak who decided to pit drivers against everyone else. Not really sure what the relevance is to the thread, I've long lost interest on this particularly scheme.

In deed Penguin. Nothing to do with the fictitious reorganisation if local authority boundaries. Keep the conspiracies coming!

Apologies @Lamusica - was aimed at those who use profanities, not you

Actually far better than I anticipated. My usual viewings from the kitchen are of the feeders that for whatever reason appear less visited. But upstairs, and doing it for the whole hour we spotted many more species, and with the help of the bird song app saw wrens, and probably a black cap. We caught a brief view of a small flock of long tailed tits, and were pleased to see far more gold finches than we expected, so numbers not as decimated, following sub freezing nights a few weeks ago, as thought. No sparrow hawks, probably only see one a decade, and expect that they are more interested in wood pigeons than sparrars.

So we have been through millions of years of evolution just to be abusive to people? Irrespective of your beliefs, and I am certainly a non-believer, I wouldn't be abusive. Just ignore or if you are that bothered argue back. I pass preachers all the time ranting in Peckham. I generally chuckle to myself but in the past have been happy to debate with JWs when they call, although they usually leave fairly quickly as they don't agree with my views, including bullying me as nine year old with tales of the end of the world. Sadly Christian fundamentalism from the times of the crusades, conquistadors and now Trump's America has so much to answer for.

Pretty unnecessary post @David Peckham 50 tyres at £150 each and then no doubt a few more that were not bothered to check why they had one or more punctures. Indiscriminate - vehicles two years old to 52 years old. No high end Beemers, Mercs, Volvos and the like. Just your normal range of family cars. I hope you got something out of your post, I didn't and perhaps karma will mean that it happens to you. @Rockets I suggest you just shut up. Don't you think that those affected and the police haven't considered why this is happening? You are just so wrapped up in your hobby horses that you can't think about how those affected may feel. Can't be bothered to put a curse on you too. @Administrator please lock or delete this thread, I'm getting fed up of unhelpful comments/trolling.

Looking at the table in reductions Lewisham was only slightly lower than Bromley. In absolute terms the outer boroughs have a lower KSI rate, perhaps less cyclists, less traffic per km, less pedestrians just wandering across the road, whatever. Lots of data that 20mph reduces death rate so if outer boroughs adopted this they'd have even more impressive figures. https://airqualitynews.com/cars-freight-transport/40-fewer-deaths-on-londons-roads-since-introduction-of-20mph-limits/