Simon Mason wrote:

On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 9:16:45 AM UTC+1, colwyn wrote:
Matthew Parris 2007 also in "The Times"

Also Rod Liddle is now at it.

https://road.cc/content/news/liddle-...yclists-273749

Rod Liddle has to be a real second rater, though. It was well over a
decade ago that Matthew Parris wrote 'the most complained about story
of the year'. His article in The Times in which he suggested piano
wire should be strung across country lanes to decapitate cyclists
prompted almost 600 protests to the Press Complaints Commission. And
this, apparently, because he felt cyclists needed to be punished for
supposedly littering the countryside with plastic drinks bottles.
Anyway, at the time, The Commission replied that the article had not
breached its Code of Practice, but it was pleased Mr Parris had
apologised for his comments.

Then, last Sunday, we get Sunday Times columnist Rod Liddle saying he
finds it 'tempting' to stretch piano wire across the road to target
cyclists. There's no way he could have been unaware of the controversy
Matthew Paris caused when he said the same thing. It's just plain and
simple copy-cat trolling.

Maybe the jurno Rod Liddle should start reading ukrc and learn how
proper 'players' set about their game. Then try and see if he can come
up with something original for his Sunday Times column.