By Mark Simpson There’s a place where drivers lose all reason and all humanity. A place where not only the Highway Code but the European Convention on Human Rights apparently no longer applies. A Hobbesian world at the edges of civilization, where pedestrians are mere squidgy pin balls to be flipped between… Read More »Off Their Trolleys – The Hobbesian Horror of the Supermarket Car Park
By Mark Simpson ‘Can hate be good?’ This was the question posed ten years ago in an animated ad that was as impossible to avoid as the products of incompletely combusted fuel in built-up areas. It began with noisy, dirty diesel engines flying over a pretty, super-saturated green countryside which… Read More »Incompletely Combusted – How Diesel Didn’t Save the World
Mark Simpson on the motorway drivers we all love to hate Statistically the safest roads to drive on, there’s nevertheless something about motorways that seems to bring out the very worst in drivers. Other drivers, that is. Never you or me, of course. Some would argue it’s because there’s no… Read More »I Spy an M-Way Onanist
Mark Simpson goes on a road trip connecting four countries: England, Scotland, the UK – & Yorkshire What’s so ‘Great’ about ‘The Great North Road’? Better known in our more impatient era as the A1? Well, if you’re unfortunate enough to find yourself in the south, it takes you to the… Read More »A1 Love – The Greatness of The Great North Road