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04/07/2008 05:11. Plainly, the M1 is no longer what the politicians now insist on calling fit for purpose. Endlessly widening it means its endlessly narrower and even more useless than if theyd left it alone in the first place. They should give up and simply build another six-lane highway that runs in parallel.

There is time to think about all this, and exactly where youd shoot objectors, as you crawl along, in a slow moving maths exam, with no one looking where theyre going, all the way to Watford, where the limit ends and everyone hits the loud pedal.

Scientists say it is impossible to go faster than the speed of light. It isnt. Not when youve just spent half an hour doing 50 and youre late. Everyone, even people in Nissan people carriers, burst out of the cones doing 670,616,629.7 miles per hour. And... // Business Daily Africa