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Wall Street Journal
a day ago
- Wall Street Journal
How You Can Turn a Traffic Jam Into a Backroad Adventure
For the longest time I believed that you should always stay on the highway during a traffic jam because taking alternate routes would simply slow you down. The conventional wisdom stipulated that the shortest route between two points was the route you were already on, so you should just grin and bear it. Resist the temptation to leave the highway because you'll either get lost or you'll end up in yet another traffic jam caused by all the other drivers who allowed GPS to redirect them.
Daily Mail
28-05-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
PETER HITCHENS: How the OSTRICH class are ruining Britain. These self-regarding rule makers dictate your life then bury their heads in the sand... and YOU are paying
Meet the Ostrich Class, that great swamp of silly, self-regarding people who decide how we shall live, suffer and quite possibly die. They know nothing about anything but they share the conventional view of what is good, so their inability to think or observe does not matter.
Daily Mail
28-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
PETER HITCHENS: Sadiq Khan wants to legalise marijuana, the drug behind so many violent horrors. He, and the rest of the liberal Ostrich class, are ignoring a national catastrophe
Meet the Ostrich Class, that great swamp of silly, self-regarding people who decide how we shall live, suffer and quite possibly die. They know nothing about anything but they share the conventional view of what is good, so their inability to think or observe does not matter.
