DuncanW

These are salient questions for sure. We need to think about 'then what happens' not should it happen or will it happen cos that driverless taxi has already left the rank The current economic model will need to evolve just as fast as the tech. And that's the hard part.

I've used them in the US - Waymo over there, not Uber. It's always tough for workers in any industry when automation takes over - it's been happening for a long time and is accelerating (excuse the pun) - we need to accelerate how we adapt to these changes. As for the passenger experience... my take is it's superior, by a margin. The driving is smooth, they are proven to crash less than human-driven cars, you have the ride to yourself so don't need to make polite conversation (or not) - you can put your own music on as loud or as quiet as you like. It's a no-brainer really!! Sorry, cabbies!!!

https://williambaileysolicitors.co.uk/ William Bailey is a well-established local solicitors firm based in Goose Green I've used them in the past with no complaints

Emirates Stadium is >60,00 but they tend to be very quiet 🙂 Jokes aside though, it's a case in point. Highbury was <40,000 and was 300M up the road, so there are definitely Islington residents who used to live half a mile from a fairly big football stadium, and now live right by a massive one. One that holds rock/pop concerts too accomodating 70,000 fans whether they like ot or not. 40% of Islington households are in social housing so regardless of when they moved their current homes, they may have had little say in exactly where they are housed.

Why would you need to know any of that?

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What makes you so sure that this information is not worthy of being classed as 'commercially sensitive'? - they may feel that they could get more for this site or similar ones in the borough now or further down the line from another promoter. If it's publicly known what GALA are paying, that reduces their negotiating position in other contracts - plus GALA wouldn't want it publically known as another promoter could just come in and offer x% more to take it away from them. This is basic stuff, surely? And it IS NOT a criminal offence to deny an FOI request that could be enforced by the ICO. In some cases, it could be a criminal offence to block that, only after the ICO has made an enforcement. But that is a very different set of circumstances.

GALA did finish promptly at 10:30 last night, so it was likely something else you were hearing. Sound does seem to travel in surprising ways but FWIW, we are a lot closer than you to GALA and could barely hear it this year, although it’s seemed a lot louder other times.

May I suggest, the reason people have replied back to the OP in the way they have is largely not down to the substance of what you're saying but the tone and your choice of words. You're upset that responses have been toxic, but your OP calls people yobs, louts and scumbags for the heinous crime of being stood outside a pub having a drink. So what do you really expect? To the substance, I walk past there all the time, and on rare occasions (mainly after Hamlet home games) it's busy and you might need to squeeze through or politely say excuse-me... believe it or not, that seems to work just fine

CIC is not the appropriate vehicle for a fund-raising intermediary. CICs are for businesses that typically sell something or provide a service for social good but are not for profit; a community cafe or arts centre, or an IT skills training centre for unemployed people. it costs £65 to set up a CIC, the scrutiny is less than for a full charity, and the administrative burden is pretty low if you don’t file accounts. It’s hard to prove a negative, but if you were trying to build a credible, positive case for giving money to street collectors for CityHive CIC, that might be a little harder still… tho thank you, Zahid for joining the Forum to give it a go.

So if (hypothectically) one is driving a modern SUV - sits on a car chassis but is built out, so bigger and heavier - and if an EV, the battery makes it heavier still -- BUT it is an EV so there's no ICE emissions, it's got the latest anti-collision/auto-braking tech so reallly, actually quite difficult to hit somone, and certainly in this area doesn't get driven any faster than 20 mph (there or thereabouts)... Is that actually a worse proposition than the family cars of 20/30 years ago - all ICE, lots of them diesel-powered - probably have ABS but other than that relying on the driver to brake and avoid collisions - and driven much faster in 30 mph limits with much less enforcement. The hard metric that smaller cars are likely to cause less harm than larger ones is difficult to argue against, but it's possibly a bit more nuanced than some would have it...?

I blame this guy

Success can be measured in many ways, but as a business, Brewdog loses money https://www.cityam.com/brewdog-james-watt-frustrated-as-brewer-remains-in-the-red/

Agreed... made me actually feel queasy

LIghts are essential - it's a legal requirement