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The entire country isn't opposed to the public sector strikes. Just those who haven't got jobs at all, those who haven't got any meaningful pensions, those in the private sector who face far more draconian cutbacks on their benefits, those in the small business sector who live with daily insecurity, and, of course, the army of parents valiantly attempting to arrange childcare as the schools shut.

While economists are, not unreasonably, fretting about the dire state of the British economy, we're leapfrogging the modern troubles to look a little further ahead.

With the economy in a state of flux, the old traditions beyond repair and even some of the new post-dotcom paradigms looking ropy, the shape of things to come is far from certain.

Travelling home from work recently, I reached Canary Wharf at 8pm. There were still large numbers of people passing through the station and the stop for buses to the Island was crowded.

This brings me to the Island Hoppa, a daytime circular service which has been running since September 2009.

Using that faux-naif, bumbling yet charming manner of Boris Johnson, the London Mayor has carefully cultivated an air of confusion over his thoughts on a London river crossing.

Since the '70s there have been repeated attempts to take the pressure off the Blackwall Tunnel and other beleaguered links but, so far, they have come to naught.

Giles Broadbent considers a radical, punitive imposition on errant MPs

I make no apology for returning to the subject of MPs' expenses. I make no apology because it is fully within the rules as laid down in the Columnist's Green Book and it is the system that stinks, not I. Reform cannot come soon enough.

By Andrew Williams

I’m setting sail from the calm blue waters of the Wharf next week to take a trip down to beautiful Bristol. I’m speaking at a conference about the nautical implications for the environment.