Beirut or Broadgate?
That’s according to telegraph.co.uk’s Jonathan Russell’s opinion on the state of crime in London:
An article in the greatly undervalued and generously over-punctuated Badge – billed as “the voice of the London cab driver’s club” – reports that traffic wardens, sorry civil enforcement officers, are now too scared [...]
No Power to the People
I came across a dispatch on the GlobalPost titled, Snoop Dog, Paris Hilton … Beirut’s Back. The jest of the article revolves around the idea that Lebanon is the place to be because people get wasted on rooftops. That’s all great and fair though the last few paragraphs really caught my attention:
Two million extra people [...]
How Lebanese
I have a personal motto: if it talks like a Lebanese and drives likes a Lebanese, its a Lebanese:
Omar Budib, a Lebanese businessman currently residing in The Gambia, was, last week, fined by The Gambia Police Force, for allegedly insulting a female traffic police officer in the course of executing her official duty.
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[...] the Lebanese [...]
A New “Little Beirut”
From Portland,Oregon to across the Atlantic at Sandy Cove, Kinmel Bay, we have a new “Little Beirut“:
The roads around Sandy Cove, Kinmel Bay, are so bad that pensioner Bob Ashcroft, 89, has been tipped off his motorized scooter three times.
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Mr Ashcroft said: “The roads are absolutely disgusting. It is making most of the people’s lives [...]
Driving and Expecting with Unexpected Results
A very sad story is making the rounds in the UAE press:
A woman who lost her unborn baby in a Dubai road crash has been convicted of manslaughter and ordered to pay blood money, in the first such ruling in the UAE, local newspapers reported on Monday. The court found the 27-year-old Lebanese woman had [...]
