When someone’s coughing and spluttering on public transport, it’s easy to wish you had hopped in the car. But the likelihood is your vehicle is festering with its own germs and dangerous bacteria, including staphylococcus and E.coli. More than half of car owners have dropped food onto the seats, foot wells or into nooks and crannies, a third have spilt a drink and a tenth used under the seats as a rubbish bin. Three fifths of motorists still eat at the wheel despite nearly one in ten cars having had someone been sick in it or a pet having a … Continue reading →

Remnant Review If social change came through combining old shibboleths with the latest fads, there would be a future for the Left. But that is not how social change takes place. The latest old Leftist to write a book on the end of capitalism is somebody I had never heard of: Paul Mason. His book is titled, Postcapitalism. To launch it, The Guardian, that aging warhorse of British Leftism, published his article: “The end of capitalism has begun.” This has been announced repeated by The Guardian for 80 years. [Note: the book I regard as the best autobiography I have … Continue reading →