en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Castle
Barbara Castle was ahead of her time. She also introduced seat belts and speed limits despite great opposition.
In February 1966, Castle addressed Parliament, calling for "a profound change in public attitudes" to curtail increasing road fatality figures, stating: "Hitler did not manage to kill as many civilians in Britain as have been killed on our roads since the war". The statistics bore out; between 1945 and the mid-1960s approximately 150,000 people were killed and several million injured on Britain's roads.
She introduced the breathalyser to combat the then recently acknowledged crisis of drink-driving. Castle said she was "ready to risk unpopularity" by introducing the measures if it meant saving lives. She was challenged by a BBC journalist on The World This Weekend, who described the policy as a "rotten idea" and asked her: "You're only a woman, you don't drive, what do you know about it?" In the 12 months following the introduction of the breathalyser, Government figures revealed road deaths had dropped by 16.5%.
Yeah, it's been here a while and is already moving on to the 90's, I'm seeing huge wide jeans out there. As a slim jeans wearer who doesn't care much for fashion I am stocking up now because they are going to be like gold dust soon, I'm not making that mistake a second time.
Dunno, everyone else seems to be happy sending a one-liner 👌
A junior team member sent me an AI-generated sick note a few weeks ago. It was many, many neat and equally-sized paragraphs of badly written excuses. I would have accepted "I can't come in to work today because I feel unwell" but now I can't take this person quite so seriously any more.
Probably a lot of non-Welsh Brits as well, I would have done the same. Welsh is a gorgeous language and more alive than it has been in my lifetime.