[Boiler]

On my journey home last night I hit a section of Fenland road at the edge of what was once Whittlesea Mere that is marked with a 30mph limit and an "uneven surface" sign at 40mph. The surface is so badly deformed I genuinely though my little Fiat and I would be catapulted into one of the dykes alongside. It would also be nice if roadside vegetation could be cut back so that direction signs were more clearly visible.

[Youngian]

The roller coaster road to Holme Fen nature reserve perhaps takes the award for Britain's worst road. Yet over the border in Lincs, the roads are better maintained. Whether that's down to geology, lower traffic volume or superior highway maintainence I don't know.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not buying it. Britain's worst road is somewhere in Herefordshire or Shropshire. Though as I always say, the new Government have had our absolutely dire local road resurfaced.

[Andy McDandy]

No, it's Road Liddle.

[Boiler]

The roller coaster road to Holme Fen nature reserve perhaps takes the award for Britain's worst road. Yet over the border in Lincs, the roads are better maintained. Whether that's down to geology, lower traffic volume or superior highway maintainence I don't know.

That's where I was. And I thought the road through Pondersbridge was bad...

It's the geology: it's the dried-out peat. That area was indeed once a bigger area of inland water than the Lake District but was drained to open up some of the richest arable farmland in England. When the railway originally struck south of Peterborough, the track was only made stable by the use of wooden faggots sunk to a depth where they reached solid ground. Later, when the line was electrified it had to be re-done because all the single catenary masts sunk out of alignment, so were replaced by gantries. The unstable nature of the ground is why the ECML is only two tracks between Yaxley and Conington.

[Boiler]

Further to the above, I went back there today as I have a couple of storage units nearby: the owner told me that on Tuesday somebody lost control of their car and ended up in a dyke as a result of hitting that stretch of road at excessive speed...

[Tubby Isaacs]

Great stuff, Guardian. Sophie Hill, who pulls the headline to bits, says herself she's a social scientist, not a medical scientist.

[The Weeping Angel]

Why is the Guardian descending into crankery?

[Boiler]

Anti-science is the thing now. Needs no understanding or knowledge.

Just watched a YT video by "Big Clive" on a British "micro-apartment", which looked like student accommodation.

Out came all the conspiracy theorists in the comments below with Agenda 2030, Klaus Schwab, "the bugz", "you will own nothing and be happy". I'm sick of these fuckers stealing our oxygen.

[Youngian]

Musk claims he's going to revolutionise housing with Tesla's affordable revolutionary micro homes. Or as we call them, sheds.

[davidjay]

Anti-science is the thing now. Needs no understanding or knowledge.

Just watched a YT video by "Big Clive" on a British "micro-apartment", which looked like student accommodation.

Out came all the conspiracy theorists in the comments below with Agenda 2030, Klaus Schwab, "the bugz", "you will own nothing and be happy". I'm sick of these fuckers stealing our oxygen.

I'm yet to have it explained successfully how owning nothing will make me happy.

[Boiler]

Anti-science is the thing now. Needs no understanding or knowledge.

Just watched a YT video by "Big Clive" on a British "micro-apartment", which looked like student accommodation.

Out came all the conspiracy theorists in the comments below with Agenda 2030, Klaus Schwab, "the bugz", "you will own nothing and be happy". I'm sick of these fuckers stealing our oxygen.

I'm yet to have it explained successfully how owning nothing will make me happy.

The idea was that everything we aspire to possess should be leased, thus shifting the burden for maintenance etc. onto the lessor (is that a word?), thus removing the anxiety of ownership.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_ ... d_be_happy

The way it's presented is best done in a cod German Nazi accent as "you vill be happy, or else you vill be shot".