I would wager it's the usage of payments and ignoring of pedestrian lights by cyclists is a big factor.
As a pedestrian, I've had FAR more encounters with aggressive cyclists than aggressive drivers (also anecdotal). Makes walking downtown more stressful.
Exactly correct, ULEZ and LTNs have created a mess in London. These policies are driven by socialism not environmentalism. Climate is the excuse, reduced personal freedom is the intent. Thankfully many citizens in the EU and UK are waking up to it, so I hope a lot of these authoritarian policies get reversed in the future.
Actually it should help with both, because a on-island terminal would also provide LNG storage capacity which would buffer short-term price fluctuations. We have zero such storage.
Again, our poor decision making around national infrastructure is on our governments. They left have left us completely exposed to international markets.
Another Irishman here, completely agree with your comment. My domestic gas and electric bills have never been higher, insane inflation for nothing more than political virtue signalling.
Oh no! I just finished reading Hyperion this week and it has become one of my favorite books of all time. I will treasure my signed copy more so now, RIP.
I'm working on the language improvements presently, but I need to clean out a lot of bad entries in my index. In essence what I am trying to say is many servers ignore "Accept-Language" so you have to rely on other means of detecting the language of the page reliably, e.g. inspecting the body content of the response. It's a non-trivial problem online.
It's a difficult problem to fix, you can set an Accept-Language header on crawl requests but his only works if the target website uses "Content Negotiation." Some sites ignore headers and determine language based on the IP address (Geo-IP) or the URL structure (e.g., /es/ vs /en/), basically a mess...