Recent comments
Most recent annotations on things by Lord Bassam of Brighton
- John Byng: Lord Bassam and Lord Clinton-Davies are out of date in thinking that facilitating growth in air transport is good for the economy. Such investment will prove an economic millstone as rising oil... (20 June 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - John Byng: Lord Bassam is right that we should look at these things over the longer term but the Government is failing to do so. Over the long term air transport is unsustainable at its present levels... (20 June 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - barbara richards: I am a woman who is being forced to be cross examined by my rapist, in the family court. Women are inferior creatures in this country, according to British law. If a woman is raped and becomes... (20 June 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Alec Yates: Well we can take that as a don't know then. (20 June 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Robert Battersby: It's nearly that already: Ladies & Gentlemen: Place your bids!!!! Lawyers & Accountants: Good Servants but Terrible Masters as we can all see! (18 June 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Francis Macnaughton: BERR has added a new High-High scenario to its outlook that predicts up to $150 per barrel. shane the Noble Lords didn't know about it! (17 June 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Robert Battersby: Peak Oil WILL change this. (15 June 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Adam Hodge: It is apparent that both Lord Bassam and Lady Linklater have valid points but are merely ocncerned with diffferent parts of the process when a young person ends up in the radar of the Police/law.... (29 April 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Paul Strickland: Asperger's Syndrome is not a behavioural disorder, but a neural/sensory problem. If you or I were to experience the world in the way these people do, we might well behave in the same way. (24 April 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - layla mofrad: i do not believe that id cards for those who have permission and leave to remain in this country, will help you identify those who do not have leave to remain. please can you define what you mean... (4 March 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Andrew Avis: Helmets again! Making themselves conspicuous? Ok to wear dayglo but not allowed to ride in primary position? Better infrastructure= Apartide of the Queens Highway? (28 February 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Martin Dann: Every year, 80 pedestrians are killed by motorists on footpaths. In the past ten years cyclists have killed two pedestrians of footpaths. Yet all we seem to hear about is how much of a danger... (15 January 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Ben S: Obviously basic mathematics is not a requirement for sitting in the House of Lords. It's not surprising that these rules are such a load of rubbish! (30 October 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Peter Steadman: The accident reductions claimed make no allowance for the following: - RTTM effect (huge, 75% of the benefit claimed at least) see http://www.safespeed.org.uk/rttm.html - Other... (3 July 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Oliver Keenan: Claiming it is a very small administrative fee rather depends upon how one quantifies the level of the fee! If the Lord is referring to the fact that rail tickets have risen exponentially over... (19 June 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - colin davidson: I can't help but think that His Lordship is missing the point. No, the highway code isn't making it a legal requirement for cyclists to use cycle lanes, but it does mean that when a cyclist is... (21 May 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Mike Frost: Cyclists are more sinned against than sinning. I regularly receive gratuitous abuse from motorists ignorant of the basics of the Highway Code, and am put at risk by dangerous manoeuvres by... (20 May 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Danny Remnant: _Consider using_ cycle routes and cycle facilities such as advanced stop lines wherever possible, as they can make your journey safer. (20 May 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Benjamin Samuel: Practicable (19 May 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Benjamin Samuel: I was given an informal warning for a few minutes by a couple of police officers for alledgedly jumping a red light in Aldwych. As a cyclist, I am irritated by Lord Bassam of Brighton's... (19 May 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Gerhard Weiss: To me it seems the wording 'wherever possible' is less clear, but rather a way of getting cyclists out of the way. Any road user is free to use the most practicable path on a carriage way,... (18 May 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Chris Beazer: "Whenever possible" includes the situations where a bad road surface or design of the facility makes use of the "facility" dangerous or extremely uncomfortable - situations where an experienced... (18 May 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Bruce Heagerty: This is greenwash, hogwash, surely. Our environmental obligations are to minimize CO2 emissions for the benefit of future generations, not to expand airports sizes so that we make the situation... (7 March 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Gerard Mulholland: If Lord Bassam were to take the Eurostar or any French TGV he would find that every booking gives an automatic -and free- seat reservation. On TGVs any passenger booking less than 12 hours... (6 March 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Adam Hodge: More watching ! Per-lease ! (31 January 2007)
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