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In 40 years, car journey times in London have doubled - and Einstein here attributes this directly to cycle lanes. And when they try to justify the Lords to us, they go on about the great repository of intellect to be found there.

The more people who avoid the embankment, the no-go zone and seek different routes the less the congestion. It's called traffic evaporation. Takes time.

Though Lord Bencathra's statement is so self centred and inward/backward looking its amazing that he hasn't got the vision to see beyond his minor inconvenience on his way to City Airport

I wouldn't care for being accused of being a racist, but if anyone accused me of being a golfer (closet or otherwise), I'd kill them.

...with your 9-iron.

List of closet golfers

1. @Manc_Ronnie
   
2. @greenhell
   

Pretty sure @jeez was a cabbie.

Wifderanglez.

I used to caddy for Lunchman.

#csb

Maclean was reported in The Daily Telegraph as having spent more than £20,000 improving his farmhouse under the Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) scheme before selling it for £750,000. He claimed the money by designating the property as his “second home” with the Commons authorities, yet Maclean did not pay capital gains tax on the sale because the taxman accepted it was his main home.

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@fox @h2o

Would you know if Forbes is liable to do pay-for-play/native advertising type content? I've just been sent an article relevant to the industry where I work, and it appears far too gushing with praise towards the subject at hand.

Remember that Chinese bus that went over a road? Turns out, lots of scandal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/world/asia/china-bus-road-straddling.html

Monorail

Are you suggesting that everything that happens in the world has already been predicted by the Simpsons?

Yes. Yes I am.

"Go away! There ain't no monorail here and there never was!"

ffs its temporary work surely - get a grip !

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/05/jeremy-corbyn-attacks-use-zero-hours-contracts-glastonbury-festival

It's not about temporary or not, it's about expectations. People were recruited expecting two weeks work but then got two days. The suppliers of toilets to the festival will have a had a contract that means they get paid if the toilets are full or empty, seems only decent to treat the litter pickers the same way.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/hundreds-of-european-workers-fired-two-days-into-glastonbury-clean-up-a7818571.html

Expectations ? - bit naive then.
e.g. if you 'expect' two weeks fruit picking and due to the weather the harvest fails then what ?
Blame it on the charity volunteers .
Like it or not they were on zero hours not a two week contract.

and zero hour contracts shouldn't exist in the first place. If you want to hire someone you should hire them at a minimum agreed amount of hours/week.

I don't know if Forbes accept placed articles, but their editorial line is often to big up Men of Industry (and they're usually men), so could entirely be just standard fawning.

PS I get a lot of emails from flacks offering pre-written articles that pretend to be something other than blatant marketing. I imagine someone must publish them if they feel it worth their while writing them, but the whole concept feels wrong to me.

PPS some publications accept paid advertorial that's put together by outside agencies that specialise in fairly fawning pieces - you used to get wrap-around or inserts in things like the WSJ that would say 'advertorial' in small print somewhere on every page. I haven't bought a print paper in a long time so I don't know if people still do that.

Ta.
Sending you a PM.

The do something call Branded Stories but they have to be pretty overtly branded and labelled as advertorial. They'r also £££ (6 figure minimum spend threshold etc).

PM me a link and i can always ask my rep how it came about...

102 people shot in chicago over the 4th july weekend, at least 14 died

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/07/05/july-4th-weekend-shootings-chicago/452585001/

'murica