Nor do I propose to defend the right to talk on a mobile while driving a car, though I don't believe that is necessarily any more dangerous than the many other risky things that people do with their free hands while driving - nose-picking, reading the paper, studying the A-Z, beating the children, and so on.

"To the lady who berated me, I say: on your bike", Daily Telegraph, 1 August 2002, p. 21.