Editor of Trans Britain. #Author of Pressing Matters. Lifetime Achievement Award PrideOfManchester 2021. Drove an 8 year old #EV called Peggy and now drives Olga who is one year old.
Posts about #climate mitigation, #trans moral panic, #books. Was #retired. Checked out but unable to leave. She/Her.
Good news: One of the hotels on my touring itinerary has EV chargers in their FREE basement car park. Always nice to plug in overnight.
Bad news: Said chargers are on yet another network that needs an app or RFID card, the app was never tested properly and the domain for Passwords to store my credentials bears no resemblance to the brand name of the network OR the web site which I had to find to get around a bug in the signup verification process.
So glad I got to debug this at leisure from the settee at home rather than under pressure with a cable in one hand after a day’s driving. And on this occasion NO, NO, NO I don’t want to pay you €6 for an RFID tag I’ll use only once. This is why I need to be sure the app is working instead.
This is what happens when free markets control the rollout of infrastructure. The chaos will end eventually when networks eat each other up and there is just one app or RFID card to rule them all. Till then
To hoteliers: It’s really great hospitality to provide low speed destination charging for guests but, for heavens sake, make sure YOU control the guest experience rather than leave patrons to fight with a network they’ll only use for one night. You provide free parking so go the extra stage and make the charging free too. That way customers can just plug in and know it just works. It’s worth it just for guest happiness and costs far less than you imagine. Or just charge a flat rate at the desk.
How the BBC covered the General Election 54 years ago in 1970. This was the first time they used an exit poll to predict the result near the start of the programme. The wrap up at the end contains some quite prescient predictions of how the Conservatives would get by with a fairly narrow majority — plus someone mentioned how Ted Heath was going to be a better figure than Harold Wilson to negotiate joining the Common Market.
If you’d like to watch a lot of Tories losing their seats here is the BBC’s election night coverage from 1997. It’s a good way of deciding how long you’d need to stay up to see the same this year, or whether your best bet is to go to bed and just get up early instead.
Someone needs to sit the Guardian editorial team down & explain to them:
Rising house prices are not 'growth' - this is asset price inflation driven by financial instruments & constrained supply... read my lips: IT IS INFLATION!
(just because its excluded from RPI/CPI measure doesn't make it growth!)
And most inflationary areas are not 'best performing' - they are areas of housing crisis!!!!
@ChrisMayLA6 Could you tack on a module which explains to journalists that if the percentage rate of inflation goes down then prices still go up, but just not as fast? Actually you might need to tack on a preceding module that explains ratios and percentages and how meaningless it is to talk about large changes in small numbers whilst not grasping small changes in big numbers. It’s unfortunate that journalism is controlled by the kids who flunked arithmetic aged 10.
