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I’m not sure there is any situation where society has gained any positive benefit from the existence of Twitter/X.

Surely the purpose of a weather forecast is to tell you what they expect the weather to be like, not go through all the implications? You take the information and make life decisions accordingly. If you expect them to spoon feed every person that might be affected in every conceivable way the...

Points 1, 3 and 4 apply to everyone. So, why should a millionaire pension get a free pass while a minimum wage worker has to pay? Thinking about the £2 fare remuneration and how to combine this with passes, how about using the money that underpins the £2 offer and creating a national bus pass...

Of course the market could have been managed if the Blair government had stemmed the flow of Eastern European workers, as other countries in the EU did, but he chose to fling the doors open and flood the country. To this day the left generally deny that this influx depressed wages for working...

Exactly this. All the new government committed to do was give local authorities the power to franchise bus services. No money was promised. Central government can say they’ve given their local counterparts the power but, without cash to back it up, it’s effectively meaningless. I too expect to...

Nothing has just been ‘discovered’. This black hole was known about before the election but the parties, including Labour, chose to ignore it. Of course, it now gives the new government a ready made excuse to cut things and blame their predecessors. Infrastructure is always an easy target to...

The only person who can adequately explain why they decided to issue penalty fares to some people and not others is the person that issued them. None of us were there and only one version and interpretation of events had been presented, so it would be completely inappropriate to suggest anyone...

Exactly this - the role of the judicial process is to establish guilt or innocence, not explore whether something was justified. To take it to its logical conclusion, if the ‘protesters’ had killed an oil company executive and then attempted to justify it on some whacky save the planet grounds...

Nothing to do with franchising - the alliance is a partnership between the Council, Stagecoach and EY. The increase in frequencies is using government money from the bus service improvement plan. Personally, I’m a little disappointed at how the money has been spent. Essentially, the taxpayer is...

It is indeed played at every stop on Hull Trains. I’m not sure what their definition of ‘unusually large’ is.

You do realise the RMT operate in their own interests and not that of their customers/members, and have only a passing relationship with the truth? I happily cancelled my RMT membership as I couldn’t continue to fund such an organisation. Locally to me, even today there is a ‘dispute’ simmering...

Central government produced £1.2bn to TfL in the last funding period. Is that what you call ‘limited’? https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2022/august/tfl-statement---update-on-government-funding-settlement

So, you’re concerned about being ‘ripped off’ but are voluntarily using Trainline and paying unnecessary fees. Makes sense. Every mile you travel by train is already heavily subsidised by people that never set foot on a train. How much more would you like them to pay?

What exactly did he do in his first term of office that makes you feel he could be the ‘worlds most dangerous man’?

Is this grounded in reality of just pure speculation? The reality is that it was Trump himself who was silenced last time by some big tech firms who disagree with him.

Hmm….Christian ‘morals’ has resulted in the persecution in law of homosexuals all around the world, and was used as an excuse to ostracise unmarried mothers, divorcees and many others. People’s individual belief in a fictional religion shouldn’t be anywhere near politics, and certainly shouldn’t...

Where do I suggest that I did? In the case of a delay, any compensation goes to my public sector employer, not my pocket. Yes I’m inconvenienced, but I’m travelling on works time. The recent appointment of two former Blair/Brown ministers who both fiddled their expenses, with one gifted a...

No doubt they will claim the fare on expenses and then pocket the delay repay.

I didn’t realise the union leadership had changed?

With the same company, rather than just the same owning group, you could do Scunthorpe to Scunthorpe with East Yorkshire via Goole (361), Hull (55), Withernsea (75), Hornsea (129), Bridlington (130), Scarborough (13), Helmsley (128), York (31X), back to Hull (X46) then Scunthorpe (350) - that’s...