I blog on Andy Newman's Socialist Unity site, a few things have come up where I disagree with him (I think this is healthy), this is something though where I agree and is of obvious interest to greens, even those of a less red shade than yours truly. speed kills..... Swindon is in the national news today after the Tory council voted to stop funding speed cameras from next year. As a political...

As plans for Britain's first high-speed rail link are due to be unveiled, certain questions will be raised.

Apparently this Snickers commercial caused a bit of a stir across the pond because some people deemed it offensive to homosexuals.In the commercial Mr T's truck pulls alongside an arse-wiggling speed walker and proceeds to tell him: "Speed walking. I pity you fool. You are a disgrace to the man race. It's time to run like a real man."He then fires Snickers bars at the speed walker, who increases h...

The following graph shows show the amount of speed camera fine revenue that was reclaimed by the partnerships implmenting speed cameras to implement further speed cameras. Quite a spike after the first year huh?

Did you read that the socialist government in Spain has introduced a swingeing series of energy-saving measures which may be a foretaste of the kind of policies which will be forced upon an energy-hungry industrial world in the coming decades if we follow the green agenda? To howls of protests from motorists and mockery in parts of the press, the Socialist government plans to cut motorway speed li...

Last month I blogged about an experiment in Sweden where a speed camera records all the cars keeping to the speed limit with all the legal drivers going into a prize draw for cash prizes. The trial has now been carried out and here’s the result (quick version – the average speed of traffic fell

Following on from last week's Guest Post by Socialist Animal on who might emerge as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland once the Labour Leadership and Shadow Cabinet elections have been and gone, I thought I'd take a look at the state of the actual Secretary's role as it stands, and its ramifications for Labour and the SNP. So the first part of this post, then, the actual role as...

Peers are posing questions to the government on speed cameras, government cars, electoral systems in the UK and electoral fraud.

Socialist Worker answers the crucial questions raised by the collapse of leading investment banks and the recent turmoil in glabal markets

The Telegraph has a view on speed cameras that I have to agree with. For decades, this country has had some of the safest roads in the world. Ministers argue that festooning our highways with speed cameras makes them even safer. The evidence suggests otherwise. While we have installed more speed cameras than anywhere else in Europe, the decline in road deaths in Britain has actually been less mark...