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SuspectUsual's latest activity
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread Caledonian Sleeper.You'd also increase the overall length of the train, and as I understand that's a pretty tight constraint at Euston
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread The cost of the welfare state - challenges posed and solutions.The problem with that is that there isn't a cast iron guarantee of a one year lag, and more fundamentally why should pensions increase...
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread You know you’re getting older when…….My partner's dad "celebrated" his 80th birthday by trying to get through the turnstiles at the Stadium of Light using his Covid pass
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread The cost of the welfare state - challenges posed and solutions.Yes, they're linked, but using the rate of increase as a fix for having got the level wrong in the first place is not the way to go about it
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread The cost of the welfare state - challenges posed and solutions.There are two issues 1 - the level of state support for pensioners 2 - the rate at which it changes I don't think anybody here is...
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread General Knowledge Quiz.The Ipcress File is one, no idea on the others
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread The cost of the welfare state - challenges posed and solutions.It seems perverse to have an arbitrary number at all, and really it should just be CPI so buying power is maintained, but if you are...
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread Supermarkets discussion.Its just an extension of the way they've done promotional prices for years
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread Reform UK discussion.It'll be the usual Farage Spread rumours Stir up division Claim "I'm just asking questions" Get proved wrong and say "well they...
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread invalid railcard.You’d hope so. After all, I don’t think it’s a requirement to have a postal address to travel by train
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread invalid railcard.Presumably the TOCs must have a process for dealing with people of no fixed abode? In this case I think the OP has given an address but...
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread Caledonian Sleeper.This just shows how fragile the CS operation is. Some of it understandable, some of it less so. But combine extreme fragility with the...
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread Station pubs (part two?).If we're extending from station pubs to really near the station pubs, the Fox and Beer Necessities in Todmorden are both about 150 yards...
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.Well, yes. "Disclosed" And the wider family / hangers on?
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SSuspectUsual replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.It isn't just the companies he owns, its the ones he's a shareholder in