Sunday Times continues to defend Rod Liddle ‘piano wire’ article

I would like all readers here to contemplate methods to selectively disadvantage motorists that can be deployed while cycling.  One opinion often expressed with regard to close passing, is that motorists do not see cyclists (or pedestrians) as likely to cause damage to their shiny cars. They will give more room to a parked car than to a moving cyclist because if they messed up steering a bit and hit a car they would incur greater damage (both physical and monetary).

I have wondered if it is possible to get something like an imitation garden spade, actually made of foam rubber with parts in metallised finish, to tie across the pannier rack. It needs to be something that is instantly recognisable so they don’t hesitate in giving more space.

Anything better than a spade and, where can I get one?

"One voice among many"... So on that basis they'd be happy with publishing a eugenics opinion piece from Hitler as long there were a few dissenting views...

The piano wire technique was developed for use by troops and resistance forces, particularly during WW2 I believe. Encouraging its use in a non-wartime situation surely flirts with terrorism - particularly in the context of intimidating/terrorising cyclists, which the article can reasonably be said to be aimed at...

I'm sure if I wrote a satirical letter to a cycling site/magazine suggesting waking up Sunday Times journalists with a handy petrol bomb the better to cook their Brunch they'd see things rather differently... Rather than that though I'd encourage direct letters to the newspaper and to senior figures at companies who advertise with them. That being said, in general I think the Times group are generally well enough disposed to cyclists and just need to direct their (paid) columnists to be more responsible.

As or IPSO, it beggars belief that they reject any responsibility for action because the matters involved are "too serious" for them to address...

The Sunday Times really doesn't know when to stop digging that hole, does it?

Where does the photo of barbed wire stretched across a path at the top of this article come from? Was it set up for the article?

I bet Rod Liddle will, the next time he wakes up surrounded by empty vodka bottles and with a deadline looming within hours, write a piece about how he fought and won against the cycling stasi who were trying to censor him. Because he, like all whining dimwit columnists who look like potatoes and complain every week in national newspapers that their voices aren't being heard, thinks he's some kind of iconoclast. When really any sense he has of being an outsider is because he knows he lacks the talent of previous generations of satirists who were accepted by most of the establishment because they were actually funny. Try as he might, he'll never be Jonathan Miller or Peter Cook. Just as everything Jeremy Clarkson has ever done screams "I wish I had the surreal wit of Stephen Fry but I'll never lose the label of just being a jobbing motoring journalist."

Satire? On whom, of what?

That sort of comment can only serve normalise murderous behaviour. 

A pity I can't boycott it coz I never bought it in the first place.

It's just a joke, like on top gear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CnMQ4L9Pc

I'm going to send bombs to the houses of Sunday Times journalists, because once one of them wrote something I didn't like. I'd like to watch their spouses and children die in pain. But that's just a joke. Satire, even.

(Actually, that's defensible as satire because it is so clealry over the top. The point about Liddle's comment is that it is too real to be satire, because people do regularly attack cyclists, including using the precise method he discusses in his column).