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I thought "driving" was the act of controlling a motor vehicle?

No, that's not all it can mean. You can speak of driving a herd of animals, for instance, and the concept in relation to controlling a vehicle was, of course, first used in relation to horse-drawn vehicles, for which it is still used. Its use for cycling is less widespread, but see here:

http://bicycledriving.org/

Some cycling advocates have adopted the term in to use it in helping to emancipate cycling. Advocates like that generally favour equal treatment of cycling and motor vehicle driving, so while they wouldn't be in favour of separate laws like 'causing XYZ by ABC cycling', they would probably be in favour of laws that combined both the offences of 'causing XYZ by ABC motor vehicle driving' and the offences of 'causing XYZ by ABC cycling'. The placeholders are obviously to cover all the possible variations of such charges. Whether this sort of strategy works is a huge debate.

Advocates like that are, for the most part, US-based, where in view of the less liberal legal tradition and the fact that not only individual states but also some towns can (and often do) make their own laws/ordinances, campaigning on the law is far more important than it is here.

This debate is driving me nuts...

As far as I can see, it's a case of 'Let's make some things that are already illegal illegal'.

then maybe it will be the "act of dangerous driving and or riding"

but obviously there would need to be some qualification regarding only pedal bikes because otherwise there would charges bought for people riding horses dangerously.

Who was the comedian that said Jacob Rees-Mogg looks like a child's
drawing of a typical Tory ?

Key (and typically vague) comment on the PM discussions mentioned above

Complete radio silence from the island of Barbuda... Scary stuff. Really hope it's not too bad.

Worked for Boris.

This fella has gone quiet

https://twitter.com/woolfallalex

Presumably his phone network is down

Storm surge:~40 ft.
Barbuda's highest elevation:~32ft
Last contact: ~2am ET
Pop: 1,638

Infrastructure 90% destroyed according to comment from the Antigua/Barbuda PM who has just got to Barbuda by helicopter.

Thanks for that link, really good excerpt but too much for my eyes on my little phone screen! I'm going to buy the book.

A lot of trolls are calling this woman a liar as a result so she deleted the tweets to escape the death/rape threats, but still stands by what she wrote. Which might be wrong - she says repeatedly it was a bad line and there's some ambiguity.

Others reporting just one death
https://twitter.com/michaelpagewx/status/905554605026799616

https://twitter.com/laurenlcutlip/status/905556922723688448

Edit to add -
Mirror looks solid on just one death. Thank god. Still a horrible disaster.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/island-barbuda-left-a-rubble-11124904.amp

Those stats are pretty sombre :(

Path prediction from 11pm last night

Those stats do sound fairly full of shit. Officially, the storm surge in Barbuda was only 8ft.

‪Pilot escapes SJ PR through eye of #Irma2017

https://twitter.com/i/moments/905487561182908416‬

Amaze

#I read the guardian newsfeed.

Amazing, but nowhere near the eye.

https://rochdaleherald.co.uk/2017/09/06/argument-for-abortion-makes-argument-against-abortion/amp/

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/sep/06/martin-shkreli-lists-secret-wu-tang-clan-album-on-ebay?CMP=fb_gu

I keep reading that as Martin Škrtel the ex Liverpool player, and thinking why would he have that?

all my ex's live in texas