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The North Eastern group was NER and HBR (Hull and Barnsley), not NBR. The text of the white paper is here.

For the Western group the GWR carried on as a company with new shares being created for the shareholders in the other companies, which were wound up. The names of the three new companies appeared in the press late in 1922. In November the LMS was originally announced as the London, Midland and...

Eden had an election as soon as he became PM. None of the other post-war transferees did.

Moving the goalposts a bit - you were talking about Burnham's attitude to Israel. The price of oil matters to everyone, whether someone specifically uses the G-word to describe Israel's onslaught in Gaza does not.

For some people in the Labour Party. Most people know that domestic issues really matter and what Burnham said in 2015 doesn't.

The BBC reports that the Trump administration has unveiled a new limited edition US passport design including Trump's picture to commemorate America's 250th birthday. Hopefully no border control officials will subject holders of this passport to special scrutiny - that would be petty. He seems...

And obviously it would never have come up in conversation when she was visiting mum-in-law. The good news for her is that the focus is on Murrell's criminality rather than the SNP's financial mismanagement - a national treasurer who saw nothing, a finance and audit committee which said nothing...

Your analysis does not allow for circulation. I don't know what newspaper circulations (including online reach [sic]) are like nowadays but historically the Telegraph/Mail/Express/Sun sold far more than the Guardian/Independent/Mirror/Record.

We have populism - right and left - offering simple, immediate solutions. Real solutions take too long. There are lines in Yeats' poem The Second Coming which suit our current political climate.

And now they will work to ensure he loses it.

There was large-scale house-building in Midlothian long before the railway was opened; Lothian Buses got funding to serve new developments in the Bonnyrigg area more than 20 years ago . I guess the railway makes development in the more distant parts like Gorebridge more attractive, and houses...

Intellectual dishonesty is in the eye of the beholder, and to say that something is 'precisely that' is just an empty put-down.

I don't think this kind of thing helps discussion - there is obviously no pound for pound correlation. Nor does accusing people of making 'intellectually dishonest blanket statements' help much!

Which is better supplied from British and other European waters than elsewhere, if it can be done economically and with proper environmental safeguards. And it provides a useful stimulus to our economy.

I think you are in for a disappointment. There may be communities in the South-west which are off the main trunk bus route from Dumfries to Stranraer, but whether any are 'towns' is another question. Maybe Wigtown.

To take a few of your points: - in harsh cuts to the public sector, Many people believe they are overtaxed and that too much of their money is being spent in transfer payments from people who work to people who don't. - in harsh attitudes to immigration, Many people believe that migration...

This is a problem with nationalism (in general, not specially Scottish). What makes it 'your' country - residence, birthplace, parents' birthplace (one/both), granny, language/dialect, history, Norman Tebbit's cricket test (come on you Haitians!), religion, ethnicity have all been criteria in...

The BBC has a timeline here about the financial issues. They were known about five years ago. I also recommend the wonderful video of her talking at the NEC - classic Sturgeon, nearly two minutes of rage without a pause for breath. Maybe she wanted to protect him, maybe to protect herself, who...

Focussing on the embezzlement and the nature of their marriage is what Sturgeon and her PR man want - you can have a good laugh but in the end you can't prove that she knew. Better than focussing on the closeness of their relationship over many years as political and admin heads of the SNP...

You're probably right and focusing on the goodies may be unfair to Sturgeon, but coffee machines are tangible (and fun) and governance less so. One of the key figures was the long-serving elected National Treasurer (then and now an MSP), who was actually responsible for the accounts - was he...