The Tepid Take

In less than a week, London is going to the polls over the selection of its new mayor. Many transport topics have received their fare share (haha transport joke) of the coverage, be it a new zone plan for the London Underground , cheaper fares before 7:30 in the morning , or just freezing fares before 2020 . One topic, however, remains unspoken: the straight-talking black cab. The outgoing mayor, Boris Johnson (neé Bojo), promised that all London taxis would have to be capable of running in “zero emission mode” by 2018 – something that certainly hasn’t appeared during his tenure. But why won’t the current mayoral candidates talk about taxis? Are they too boring? Too sacred? It’s not an absent issue from the London Assembly . Well, to save prospective mayors the trouble, I’m here to discuss taxis, Ubers, and so much more (actually not much more) in this article. The sheer quantity of taxis cruising on the streets of London, New York, or Los Angeles wouldn’t be a problem if not for the

Students in the UK pay £9000 yearly for their tuition. This policy was chosen over pursuing a graduate tax or reducing tuition fees in favour of alternative taxation methods. Some would argue that tertiary education is just like primary and secondary education, in that the onus isn’t on students to pay it, but rather that economically active members of society ought to pay the costs of educating the rest of us, given that educating people benefits everyone. The flipside of this is that university education is, to a certain degree, differentiated from the education that comes before it, in that it arguably isn’t a necessary step but rather a choice, for which students should be prepared to pay. Suffice to say, this article isn’t about arguing whether or not tuition fees are fair, but whether they make sense, and whether students are really devoid of some of the blame in this whole debacle. We start with a question: What about the continent? The European context here really deserve