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If you have Netflix, put an evening aside to watch Under Paris. The setup is this: Summer 2024. Paris is hosting the World Triathlon Championships on the Seine for the first time. Sophia, a brilliant scientist, learns from Mika, a young environmental activist, that a large shark is swimming deep in the river. To avoid a bloodbath at the heart of the city, they have no choice but to join forces with Adil, the Seine river police commander.
It's as bananas as you'd expect - a pure popcorn movie that builds to a comically gory 3rd act.
The role of traditional media is, to an extent, overblown. The papers were the first to lose their grip on opinion as TV took over. With the move to online publishing they have recovered some ground and have shifted engagement to their websites and other media. This is where they're pushing the narrative through targeted advertising and using your data to drive content. The online platforms are like the wild west - this from Marianna Spring is a good example: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ww6vz1l81o
This may be the first post-TV election; 5m watched the first TV debate which is good relatively for the viewership available across the number of channels available, but in absolute terms is half who saw the first ever TV debate in 2010.
Most people, most of the time, don't change their vote in the lead up to an election and all this noise will (for the most part) be irrelevant.
There's little data for London and little recent data. However, the headlines are that cycles are a tiny minority of pedestrian injuries across the UK.
305 people were killed on the pavement in the 8 years between 2012 and 2020. Of those, 2 were by cyclists; car drivers were responsible for over 99.46% of pedestrian deaths on pavements.
Over the same period, 32 pedestrians died by vehicles jumping red lights. 1 was caused by a cyclist. 385 serious pedestrian casualties were a result of red light jumping - 17 (4%) were cyclists.
By comparison, 3 people a year die on average from cattle related injuries - cows ARE more dangerous than cyclists.
My Mum didn't speak to me for a while after I highlighted I probably paid more tax than the owner of the paper she reads every day, the Daily Mail, because he has non-dom status.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
It says a lot more about who we are now that 2 Prem teams want to play us. They're setting up their squads for next season too and the fact we play a certain way makes us a more attractive team for them to practice against.
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