LONDON’S

new cycling and walking ‘tsar’ Will Norman has complained that cycling is dominated by ‘white, middle-class men’. I can’t say I’ve noticed, not unless you count Boris. Norman wants more women and members of the ethnic minorities to get on their bikes. Good luck with that. But the real problem with the ridiculous network of cycle lanes all over London, and other cities, isn’t white middleclass men — the one group you’re allowed, nay encouraged, to hate in these enlightened times. Not only do the costly rat-runs cause enormous congestion and pollution, judging by the pictures in the Mail this week, hardly anyone — white, male or otherwise — seems to use them most of the time.