Something I hadn’t picked up until recently was the role of the black cab on 7/7. Anecdotal evidence suggests that on the day of the bombings black cabs ferried people to hospitals, carried people to and from the target areas and helped bring relatives and friends together. All for free. It’s not on the same scale as the now famous evacuation on 9/11 when ferries, tugboats, private vessels, and others joined together to evacuate an estimated 300,000 people from lower Manhattan but it is a useful demonstration of community resilience in action.
Let’s make climate a culture war!
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...
