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15 years on from the publication of The Road Ahead, The Atlantic publishes their verdict on Bill’s predictions. I take issue with them on point #2, The Wallet PC Verdict: Hit. Gates’s wallet PC is more or less today’s mobile smartphone with voice capability added. What the Atlantic fail to mention here is that Bill […]

Have you received and paid for a penalty charge notice for a bus lane contravention from Lambeth Council on the A2217 Clapham Park Road? If you did before 21st December 2009 then you may be entitled to a refund. In January 2009 I got a PCN on this road. I spent a year querying it […]

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