http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Daily Wail at it again en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:51:12 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9050#post-93237 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:10:39 +0000 wee folding bike 93237@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Everytime I do something which enrages Melanie Phillips I think there is hope for humanity. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9050#post-93139 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:49:23 +0000 kaputnik 93139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>She was born to write for the Daily Mail</em></p> <p>I didn't realise that she used to be a left-wing Guardian/Observer hack for quite some time. I think she's low and unprincipled enough that she'll write exactly whatever nonsense it is that she's paid to write if the punters will lap it up. She's also an off-her-rocker flat earth believer. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9050#post-93130 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:29:32 +0000 Min 93130@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Melanie Phillips is the most odious person on the planet and she is up against a lot of competition.</p> <p>I once listened to a Moral Maze where I actually agreed with her (Yes, I was really worried about that) - and she still put my hackles up with every word. She was born to write for the Daily Mail. She is the DM personified in fact. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9050#post-93123 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:03:34 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 93123@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's the way to do it :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9050#post-93121 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:02:29 +0000 chdot 93121@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> iPayRoadTax (@iPayRoadTax)<br /> 03/12/2012 09:24<br /> Melanie Phillips' hate piece on "cyclo-fascists" is DM-free here: </p> <p><a href="http://flic.kr/p/dy8x9D" rel="nofollow">http://flic.kr/p/dy8x9D</a></p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9050#post-93120 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:00:47 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 93120@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And no, I'm not going to link to it cos it just gives them revenue. That bastion of rational and logical thought, the delightful Melanie Philips, is giving her views on cyclists today (after three paragraphs of 'oh I approve of more cycling, it's great' it then descends into the usual 'they all do this that and the next thing and are virtually deliberately trying to knock pedestrians down').</p> <p>Comments are and will be predictable nonsense (think EEN x a billion). For the very same reason as I won't be watching 'War on the Roads' on the BBC this week, I merely scanned the article when a link was sent to me and I opened it without thinking. It's a pity Ms Philips would do some thinking before fingers touch keyboard.</p> <p>What gets me is it's the usual 'some' cyclists break the law because they're idiots (which is true) which gets conflated into 'all' cyclists do it; whereas 'some' motorists break the law because they're idiots and from that either the laws are stupid, or the driver was unlucky to be caught. And I can do without being hated thankyou very much... </p>