The Rhizome Blog

There’s a rather strange phenomenon at play right now in the UK; we continuously value vanity over security, especially when it comes to life behind the wheel. People drive around in cars featuring the latest back massage technology, with speakers that allow you to blast your favourite ABBA songs down the local high-street. And yet, most of us have no idea how safe our cars are before we buckle our kids into the backseat.

Southern rail has announced that it will replace its fleet of trains with travelators, as a dispute with drivers has turned hundreds of thousands of Green-voting liberal Brighton residents into an angry, murderous mob.Southern rail CEO Charles Horton commented: “Turns out that our plan to axe 341 train services has been about as popular as Mike Tyson among feminists.

If you were to take even the most cursory look at my Facebook wall last Thursday, you'd have assumed that the results of the EU referendum were a foregone conclusion.Friday dawned and the internet imploded in palpable disbelief.

We’ve Voted Leave. Well, some did, the rest of us – admittedly along with some regretful Vote Leavers – are sitting here indulging in some good old fashioned lamentation.We’re cringing after Nigel Farage’s appearance at the EU parliament yesterday, as he gleefully gloated over the result. He might as well have yelled ner nicky ner ner, and pulled Jean-Claude Juncker’s trousers down.

If there's one thing Brexithas taught us, it's that London and therest of theUK don't sing from the same hymn sheet.They don't even sing in the same church.London was none the wiser to the mood of the populus until it woke this morning to find its waters had been broken, messily and unwillingly.David Cameron's voice was breaking, Sam Cam's head bowed sadly, Mark Carney was bravely displaying that Canadian calm, and one Eton alumni was arranging his mop, jauntily, and debating whether erecting a zip wire to the front door of Number 10 would appear crass or lovable.Today, journalists have been busily requesting comment from industry thought leaders, and we've dutifully obliged. But no one really knows what Brexit means for business operations at ground level.