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Good. Absolutely ridiculous that this flagrant lobbying and disinformation organisation is classed as a charity

One of the most annoying bits is that these increases are always inflation plus a bit (eg current rate of inflation plus 3%). But... inflation is calculated using, among other things, broadband prices. So this practice guarantees that inflation will be pushed up

Rain Alarm! It's great, and you can customise alerts too

The thing is, most of these "conversion kits" convert a bicycle into an illegal motorbike, not into a legal pedelec. There's no way government will - or should - make that easier

The other annoying thing they (esp. MS) do is pop up messages like "The whole process of saving files has changed while you were asleep [learn more][got it]" and here, when you need it, there's never an option for "remind me later". So you either have to stop what you're doing and go and read a massive blog entry that's not actually relevant to the task in hand or you need to dismiss the message and never be able to find it when it's actually relevant

Got to say, I'd be tempted by the carbon of the two. It's going to be an open mould Chinese frame, but there are lots of good ones of those around. The big consideration at this point is getting a good frame and wheels - you'll slowly upgrade other components over time anyway. Both bikes are 9 speed (one is definitely Sora and the other sounds like Sora too). The Triban is heavier and, although the wheel weight isn't given for the other bike, I suspect they'll be a bit lighter.

Ultimately, the right bike is the one that would put the biggest smile on your face, and without testing both it'll be hard to know which that is. But do have a good look at the carbon bike, and consider upgrading the brakes to Spyre hydro calipers before long

How do you think cars are moved around?

Always good to get the US perspective on an article about Amsterdam

Kagi is good, but for rare topics try search.marginalia.nu

Ironically this article reads like GPT output

You have to understand the wider context. In a climate emergency, UK government has spent years increasing public transport costs while deliberately holding down the cost of motoring, most notably through freezing the Fuel Duty Escalator for about 12 years now.

But the government regulation will never come without a LOT of voters feeling very unhappy, so perhaps don't tell people they shouldn't feel unhappy about the situation?