Annoyances and Irritations News & Updates
- 11th September 2008
At the time they are faced with being broken up by the anti-trust regulator, BAA are still putting out misleading statements, as relayed in this BBC article:
Delays become worse at Heathrow
Their PR officer claims that "Heathrow is full and its depend
- 8th September 2008
Matt Allright is the familiar face we associate with uncovering Rogue Traders every week on BBC1, going undercover to find all sorts of deceit and exploitation, from restaurants employing illegal immigrants to plumbers ripping off the elderly, but perha
- 8th September 2008
While BAA is being threatened with breakup by its friends at the DfT and still considers its rivals being Paris and Amsterdam, other airlines are moving fast into new segments taking note of rail as an unbeatable competitor on short journeys and jet fuel p
Sometimes political correctness drives me over the edge: Nothing To Do With Arbroath: British government bans the word 'obese' to describe overweight children Does using euphemism help
solving the issue? At a time when "Obesity 'threatens future of NHS'" (
- 25th July 2008
An article in the RTT needs little to be added to: Economic case for Heathrow expansion
'flawed' (From RichmondandTwickenham Times) The Friends of the Earht have commissionned a report to the Stockholm Environment Institute was commissioned: see their pres
- 21st July 2008
The 2M group, representing the 2 millions people living under the Heathrow airport flight path (LHR is the airport annoying the most people in Europe) has managed to get great coverage:
Evening Standard: £30bn rail link to put Sheffield within three hours
- 16th July 2008
Because the Government has imposed a "use it or loose it" rule for those precious Heathrow take-off and landing slots, some airlines such as BMI plan to have planes 'fly empty' to keep slots at Heathrow.
This shows the difficulty of governing in a free
- 14th July 2008
So politicians want us to be green... Seems laudable, especially since it is badly needed, the country being bad at recycling, etc...
But then, it seems it always only translate in one thing for citizens: more taxes. Car are an obvious and easy targe
- 11th July 2008
...for Mr. Walsh's bonus!
His arguments in this Richmond and Twickenham Times article dubious for the least:
1. The jobs impact has never been quantified by an independent survey
2. Comparing LHR alone to other airports is dishonest for t
- 17th June 2008
I don't have much to add to this article: British cities shun London's wasteful car tax - Times Online
"[...] overheads are now so high that they burn up the equivalent of almost £4 of a standard £8 charge. Money raised to improve public transport has be