I had a brief look into the school thinking it was going to be a posh private school.

Turns out that it's a school that specialises in kids with Autism.

These parents have kids with special needs which probably cost them a lot of time and money as it is, then on top of that they have to put up with a massive amount of fines when trying to get them to and from education.

This is not a good look for the council.

Need enforcement like that here. I know people who live near a school and they can never leave their house at pickup/dropoff time as a bunch of cunts will park across driveways every day.

"There is no where to park!" - exactly, fuck off and find somewhere to park legally.

The road is closed at each end of the school day. So yes, they would fine people driving up to the school.

Previously, it was reported that 70,000 PCNs were issued in 12 months, at a rate of 384 per school day.

In July 2025, the two cameras enforcing the scheme outside Manor School raised more than £107,000 in a single month, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

That's insane. It sounds like they're probably fining everyone who's dropping off and picking up their kids.

I wonder what the signage says.

As a Dane who’s lived in the U.K. for 25 years this is absolutely just about people getting used to it, the way Americans have to get used to roundabouts.

Floating bus stops require that cyclists respect the zebra crossing (they often don’t, and there’s often no material on the cycling lane that indicates you should, like bump tiles etc) and it requires that bus passengers expect them. It’s habit and enforcement and culture and it starts early. We just need to get used to something else and let’s not be like Americans and reject a perfectly formed solution like roundabouts just because it requires changing habits.

Danish traffic safety books for children deal with this head on: When you step out of a bus, don’t run off; cyclists may be coming on the other side.

I think they need to do a bit of work getting zebra crossings to be a place cyclists feel they need to stop. It's strange in hight traffic places where no one is stopping for pedestrians. I would imagine it took a few years for cars to learn to stop.

I bet if you look at this in detail the issue is going to be mostly with people riding illegal e-motorcycles in cycle lanes, not people riding bikes and legal e-bikes (I admit there will be some exceptions)

Given that most private bike owners don't stop at red lights here in London, I doubt it would make a difference for rental bikes. I got sworn at by another cyclist because I stopped at a red.

Distance does seem like a more reasonable option tbh

hmmm, option one would be safer. option 2 would "undermine the private operators’ profitable business model". tricky decision. i wonder which one the british government will choose

Without reading, I'm going to say that sausage rolls are suspiciously cheaper in areas with worst vets that have more animals die when treating them.

That was a great article. It is genuinely amazing what lies underfoot in this city. I recently found out that my local park contains a spring. An actual bubbling spring! No sign, no fuss, no recognition whatsoever other than a dot on a map

I've never been served one up, but I have seen a couple of videos talking about them. I recently saw one by Marina McBain, and the stuff in there is outright child abuse. Yet YouTube and tiktok etc allow and monetise this. I hope they as well as the parents get sued to oblivion by these kids.

Yeah! The high priced real estate market is showing signs of collapsing. Suddenly homes may become more affordable again.

What is that... You have no money to buy a home with anyways!?

It's good. It would have been nice if they could have extended it to connect with Ladywell fields.

I'd understand if this was a problem with using the main high street, so I'd suggest running it round the back by Algernon and Elmira to link up with the existing track.

If you hate the idea of public places not being private so much you probably better just stay in your own home and never leave. That'd probably be best for all involved. You don't ever wind up in the background of someone's video, and there's one less crackpot yelling at the general public for doing totally normal things.

Very true.

How about making it so you cannot profit of a persons appearance without express consent. If you release a monetised video without consent of the person in it, then you will not receive that money until the matter is close and you have written consent.

Edit: I see that might affect journalism too.

If someone still pointed a phone at me for no reason, or even worse a pair of Pervert Specs, I'll still quite willingly break them apart and I'll feel in my right to do that (quite wrongly).

Nah. If you're in public you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. Being able to film anyone in public for any reason must be protected, it's the only way to film bad people doing bad things. Imagine if the cops controlled the only cameras allowed to record cops? Ditto for politicians.

carry a really bright headlamp around and put it on whenever someone with pervert glasses tries to film you. it wouldn’t work against a regular camera, but since the pervert glasses are stuck directly to the face they just wouldn’t be able to look at you.

All exactly the reasons why I said it would be extremely difficult and that's putting it mildly.

For all the good intentions, it would absolutely be misused and abused.

It's currently a shitty situation for those being filmed by fucknuggets like this, but the law in this country is that you have no expectation of privacy in a public place. That would need to change to accommodate anything like you're suggesting. Lots of companies and corporations would be very happy to see that change but I'm not convinced it would be a change for the good. It could, for example, prevent you from legally taking a photo of your kids at the beach if there's anyone else on the beach. Likewise, photos at tourist attractions. No more photos at gigs or festivals.

As for 'the public interest', that's subjective. What Stephen Yaxley-Lennon would consider in the public interest is likely very different to what you or I would consider to be in the public interest.

I feel like I've successfully navigated the Internet well enough that I haven't seen any of these.

And those sound awful.

Are "family vlogs" illegal yet?

There's one bit between Euston and London Bridge where it rises high, and then goes quiet for exactly 10 seconds before rising high once more, and then down to nothing.

That second wind catches the non-locals out, and I put on a smug superior knowing grin as I wince my eyes and stare at my phone until the noise terror subsides

As I said, there are a myriad of issues with what I propose, for a start, creating such a law that affects this specific problem alone.

It think it should follow rules like journalists that something like that is in the public interest. It's a difficult thing to negotiate or otherwise we end up in the same situation as with the SLAPP laws where they get abused by the rich.

I do believe it should be everyone's right that, if they don't want to appear or be heard on Camera, they should not.

I find it extremely problematic that everyone is carrying a recording device in their pocket, and the first thing that happens as soon as something is uploaded, is that it's processed by a private companies AI, and it seems the we are powerless to do anything about it at all.

Until you make an actionable law that punishes the creators and the host services, your rights to a private life will just continue to be eaten away for someone else's profit.