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I am assembling material on the efforts over some years to get parliament to look seriously at changing the law on motor insurance ie to place the burden of proof on the driver in the event of a collision with a 'vulnerable road user'.
Jeremy Paxman in his MacTaggart lecture to the Edinburgh Festival described the media, (which must include the newspaper industry) as, our triviality, our short-sightedness, our preoccupation with conflict." 'Hear, hear', I hear many campaigning cyclists cry.
Lest we forget. For those of us with the stomach, it's worth reminding ourselves of how the press/media treated us in the debate on the 5th Motor Insurance Directive et al. http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/news/20620/ETRA-apologises-for-incorrect-motorist-liability-press-release And then compare its gut-wrenching hypocrisy at the time of the Abergele tragedy.
It is now widely accepted that the media influences government by intimidation. Given the biographical confessions of endemic alcoholism amongst so called 'journalists', can we ever expect cycling to receive a fair hearing from the press (and by definition government), when a universe often separates the morbid drunken ruminations of its key practitioners on 'personal self-doubt and worth'', contrasting so starkly with the personality enhancing freedom of cycling in the open air ?
Lest we forget what Jeremy said in 1997 http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/misc/unspeakable.html
Gud on yer Paxy
Roy
CTC RTR Denbighshire/Conwy
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