That’s the new promotion by the police. Speed Kills! Nothing subtle. Nothing cryptic. Nothing too verbose. Just the facts: speed kills!

What they don’t tell you is that driving too slowly makes you want to kill. Its different, I know, but its real. I get behind the wheel and I’m just fine until things happen. Then I want to kill, (in no particular order):

-Someone who sticks to the “20 mph” limit.
-Someone who is blocking the ‘fast lane’ traveling below the speed limit.
-The person at the front when the traffic light goes green and no-one moves. I count to… well, to ‘one’ and start hooting. But would rather be shooting.
-Someone who is in front of me and going slower than I want to travel. Which is, pretty much, everybody.
-The man who invented speed bumps.
-His wife, children and extended family.
-The man who invented speed cameras.
-Sadiq Kahn. Just because.

So there you have it. My ‘murder list’. And that’s just the one whilst driving. Which, other than abject tossers walking down crowded streets staring at their phones, is the only time I actually get angry. In any meaningful… murderous way. Oh, watching the news on tv raises the hackles, but only on BBC, ITV, CNN, Sky, Al Jazeira and all the others. And, of course, reading the Mail on Sunday makes me very angry. Which is why I get it delivered every Sunday. It’s good anger. Raises the blood pressure. Like doing some cardio work in the gym. So it’s healthy, right??

Anyway, looks like Heathrow’s 3rd runway is indeed going ahead. This, according to our chancellor, is a bit like everyone in the country waiting at a Las Vegas slot machine, holding a bucket under it waiting for the jackpots to come a’flooding out. However, I think we may need to be rather patient whilst we’re waiting for the ‘inevitable’ growth windfalls, because to build the runway, assuming permissions are granted and Ed Milliband and Sadiq Kahn are executed so they can’t prevent it, they ‘just’ have to put part of the M25 into a tunnel and knock down a few hundred homes. That shouldn’t take too long. When do infrastructure projects ever run over predicted times?

Happy Thursday.

A xxxx