Cycle Revolution at London’s Design Museum

Tim Dawson has the lowdown on a major new exhibition of bicycles at London's Design Museum, including cargo bikes, city bikes and the bikes used by Merckx, Moser and Wiggins to break the Hour Record. He speaks with the shows curator Donna Loveday and consider the show's strengths and weaknesses. Tim and host Jack Thurston then wonder if it's right and proper to fall in love with a bicycle and discuss other great cycle collections in the UK and overseas.

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Can you solve it? The crossword that counts itself

Here’s a self-referential puzzle for our self-obsessed age.

Hello guzzlers.

First I’d like to introduce my friend Lee Sallows, who is a master at writing sentences that count the number of letters they contain. Like this classic:

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PODCAST EP.9 – CAITLIN MORAN

Didn’t do one of these for Rob Delaney last week. No disrespect to Rob. I was just struggling to stay afloat so cut myself some slack. Podcast number 9 features a conversation between myself and Cailtin Moran, fast talking writer of funny and thoughtful things about how we treat each other in the modern age. ...

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Five-Day Forecast

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How are cyclists most likely to die?

Nearly 90 cyclists were killed riding their bikes in England and Wales last year, but how are you most likely to come a cropper while cycling? And are you more likely to die falling off a ladder? Helen Pidd sifts through the figures

Would you have guessed that 70 people died in England and Wales in 2014 from falling off a ladder? That 15 fell off a cliff and yet just one man died falling out of a tree last year? Five women died from “pain and other conditions associated with female genital organs and menstrual cycle”; nine people passed away from a “foreign body entering into or through eye or natural orifice”. The list of ways to die, detailed in Office for National Statistics (ONS) annual mortality data published, goes on.

But as a cyclist, I was most interested in looking at how cyclists died. The stats make sobering reading.

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PODCAST EP.7 – SCROOBIUS PIP (DOUBLE HELPING)

Podcast 7 features conversations with British rappulist and podcaster Scroobius Pip. We talked about podcasting (of course), forgetting people’s names, stuttering and rudeness. It was fun. On regret though: my hilarious off the cuff comment referring to an excess of Marc Maron as being ‘over Maronated’ would have been better if I’d said ‘over MaronADED’, ...

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Y-Stop 'stop and search' app will instantly hold police to account

People stopped and searched by police are able to record them and instantly send the footage to lawyers by shaking their phone, as part of a new app designed to hold officers to account. 

The Y-Stop app has been created as a response to police use of stop and search powers and its creators say it will make the police responsible for their actions and improve interactions between the public and officers. 

By: Matt Burgess,

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