Manners in a short-fused world - Let’s revive best survival strategy of all

Former courier cyclist Charlie Alliston, who knocked down and killed Kim Briggs, a mother of two as she crossed a London street, has been convicted of wanton and furious driving but cleared of manslaughter at a groundbreaking Old Bailey trial. Alliston will be sentenced next month.

The judge warned Alliston he may go to jail, adding: “I have not seen one iota of remorse from Mr Alliston at all at any stage.”

Any road death is a tragedy but the circumstances of this one has renewed public discussion about how we might try to better live together in crowded, urban settings; how, by realising that there is a huge world outside of our own, often hermetically-sealed, bubble we might lead a less stressed, confrontational, and probably happier life.