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I see that MI5 is offering a new text-alert service. That’s quite scary: you could be quietly dozing off on the train when some strident tone awakens you to the terrible realisation that tomorrow might be your last day to obtain a 10 per cent discount on their kitchen cabinets.
If anyone’s interested, I am also offering a text-alert service: it will let subscribers know the moment my neighbour leaves her driveway. Her dopey husband has just bought her a new Range Rover Sport. She couldn’t cope with a Freelander and now he’s put her behind the wheel of something almost twice the size and double the speed. In a single week, the door mirrors – both of them – have acquired substantial scars, and the rear wing has obviously been in contact with a brick wall: the one on Farm Lane near the City of London Freeman’s School, if I am any judge.
It doesn’t help that she drives about with her ‘phone glued to her ear, and does so with impunity because our village bobby is too busy dealing with a spate of daylight robbery that started when a new family acquired the National Trust tearoom franchise.
I think the time has come to introduce type-training. They used to do it for buses and I believe it is still required for aircraft: before a pilot can fly a commercial airliner of an unfamiliar type, he or she must be trained and tested accordingly. And it’s progressive: a pilot cannot in one step graduate from a Dakota to a 747, which takes years of experience to master. Moreover, there must be as many landings as take offs.
Play it right, and such a system could rid the roads of inexperienced 4×4 drivers, before they do the same to us.
Your views are both honest and thought-provoking….
Ronnie Westhead | 19 Feb 07 - 1:57This is my first visit to your Blog -thingy……
Thank you.
Most entertaining and informative.
Boris Johnson would definitely make you deputy-prime minister….
If only the sheep were clever enough to realise that HE is the best bet
this country has seen in years….
Good luck…
Ronnie.