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Taking advantage of the free under 16 bus fares we decided to race Kinch Bus' Skylink Derby versus EMRs rather troubled Aurora service between Leicester and Loughborough. Which would win? Hope you enjoyed.

I think it's worth considering the time to get from station to centre. For example Skylink Debry - Leicester to Loughborough - is 30 minutes by bus and 10 minutes by train. However, it's a 10/15 minute walk at each end so the bus (£3) is quite competitive compared to the train (£8) and take you...

I'm with you on everything you say in your above post, in particular this part with one caveat. People on this forum think that giving transport away for free is a bad thing... unless it's for pensioners. Which really feels like double standards.

Whilst you may categorise them in the same way and you have the same power to remove either the drunken lout or the obstinate buggy user, they will 100% be seen and judged in the court of opinion in a much different way. And let's be honest, the social media 30 second cut down version of events...

But they're advertising outside the bus, to people behind the bus who are likely to be car users. Seems reasonable to me.

I assume you're also not in favour of pensioners getting free travel?

Your answers to some of these questions lead me to believe you've not had to live on the bread line as a young family. A household take home of £3,600 (is easily ate up if you add in a couple of kids, rent, childcare, food, school uniforms, clothing, car for one and public transport for the...

I believe the NLW has a London weighting, which would be accounted for in this figure. I can assure you that as someone who has previously lived in a situation where two NMW incomes are coming in to a house and I don't live in or near London you don't live "reasonably OK."

I guess people's definitions of rich really depend on their own personal circumstances, savings and stage in life so I'm willing to agree to disagree on this one as I guess you can't base it solely on salary. However, when we're at the point where 15% of the jobs in the UK pay less than then...

Taking home £68k a year absolutely is rich. You're earning double the average wage - if you can't cope quite comfortably on that wage then you're clearly not managing your money well! My only exception would be for those living in London. The minimum wage has outstripped inflation but is still...

The government doing two things at once? You're much more of an optimist than me! :) Taxing AI is a VERY interesting subject but probably outside of this thread.

It's possible to do both at once, but very unlikely and therefore I'd argue that the most important one (those really struggling) should be tackled first. If we're talking radical, what I'd love to see is Universal Basic Income. Whilst it's a bit pie in the sky it's possibly something that...

I agree that the £100-£125k tax gap is not fair, but I'd rather we sort out those on the lower end of the spectrum who are actually genuinely struggling to eat before we start helping the rich, again. And as much as people may want to claim £100k is not rich, it is. It's also unlikely to change...

You only pay the 60% on the earnings between £100-125k. You're not paying 70% on your full earnings. Someone on £100k is still taking home £68k even with the high rate of tax, double what the average UK salary is. Someone on £125k is still taking home £78k. I don't think we should cry too much...

Agree, it's absolutely ridiculous that it goes down once you earn £125k.

They use the same LLMs in the background, but certainly where I work (large financial sector company) it's a very different product than what the public see and use. Whilst we do have access to a chatbot type interface for general queries most of our work is done through specialised interfaces...

I would hope that the driver uses their discretion to let on some genuine stranded kids, but denies boarding to those who they know will cause trouble.

Agree, the death of youth clubs and funding for organised teenage activities has a lot to answer for. Of course, not that the kids 40 years ago were angels by any stretch of the imagination.

I think for most of us £100k still seems like a rather unachievable dream salary. The average salary in the UK is still <£45,000 whilst the median salary is still less than £40k. At £100k you're still earning more than twice as much as the average Joe. I'd love to share this viewpoint, but in...

They must have read my post above! ;) Sensible solution for post-6pm travel if they're seeing ASB on the routes.