This is an unflinching portrait of an England quite unlike George Orwell's idealised nation of "old maids bicycling to holy communion", let alone John Major's "invincible green suburbs".
I call it bicycling alchemy: we're turning a bad story into a good story, we're turning shit into gold.' Andy is so pleasant and his cause is so obviously true.
One simple prescription for reducing obesity is to move back to the city and enjoy the benefits of walking and bicycling ("active transportation") to get where we need to go.Mark Chase Lecturer Department of urban and environmental planning Tufts University Somerville, Massachusetts* SIR – The decline of smoking has contributed to rising obesity.
His murder on May 10th he was shot by an unknown gunman while bicycling on a busy avenue was not even unusually brazen by the country's grim standards.
BICYCLING to Economist HQ each day, it is hard to miss the advertisments on double-decker buses, urging Britons who are not practising religious believers to tick the box marked "no religion" on the 2011 census, which is taken this month.
Ethan Seltzer, a professor of urban planning in Portland, thinks little Freiburg, in Germany, is the best comparison, with its similar obsessions about recycling, sustainability, public transit and bicycling.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] to shed the fatSIR – You put much of the blame for global obesity on highly processed fat- and sugar-laden foods, but barely mentioned suburban sprawl and the switch from bicycling or walking to the car (Special report on obesity, December 15th).
Bicycling around with his rucksack stuffed with photographic equipment, Sander would approach startled strangers if they interested him as suitable "types" for his pet project.
One or two others are bicycling from the direction of the boma, the administrative centre.
The transformation will be a bit like that of some grand European monarchies into "bicycling royals".The clearest sign of change is that you now see much less of chief executives.
WHEN John Major, Britain's most recent Conservative prime minister, wanted to evoke the spirit of England in 1993, he bowdlerised George Orwell, talking romantically of "old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist".
