While cycling yesterday I was mulling over that question "why are cyclists so angry?".

Here is a thought experiment.

Imagine every few times you walk out of the front door of your house somebody jumps out and screams "F*CKING C*NT" at you and swings a baseball bat at your head. Not every time but very regularly. Now imagine how you'd start to feel just leaving your house; waiting for somebody to jump out and hurl abuse at you then swing a baseball bat at your head.

How would you feel leaving your front door?

Calm? On edge? Ready to fight back?

So you're a company who wants to use a really cool photo you saw on the Internet on your Insta or Twitter?

Super-awesome! 🤘

But hold on! Wait! Before you do, there's some things you need to do! Firstly you need to find out who owns the copyright for the photo and get explicit permission for your use.

This doesn't mean posting the photo and crediting the account that you found that photo on. You need to seek permission first; from the actual copyright holder.

So...I'm on the train home. Long day and exhausting. Was on the stand for over an hour and a large part of that was cross-examination by the defence. The defence lawyer was really good, more on that in a while. The prosecution was good too although there had been a mistake… …made in the charges that it was listed as one road but that road turns into another road. So on a technicality that part was ignored. So we were really left with the start of the incident which was just an attempted close-pass on the inside. For this the magistrates…