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Someone pointed out to me that the Green manifesto suggests that copyright terms be limited to 14 years. Now, obviously it's a manifesto, which means it's a wishlist, and it's the Green manifesto, which means it's about as likely as seeing Isambard Kingdom Brunel come back to life to name the...

No, Heron Quays is further away from Crossrail than the others.

I honestly can't see us joining the Euro for quite a long time, simply because the financial collapse showed how flawed a proposition it is. The pound, the dollar and other independent currencies work because they have a single economy for a single currency. If you get into trouble you can print...

Well at the moment Greater Anglia has the following liveries: * First Group Barbie debranded (the dark blue ones, 360s only I think) * "One" unbranded (the blueish one) * "One" Breckland Line (blue with Breckland Line vinyls) * National Express (the ones with grey and white diagonals) *...

West India Quay is closest, but Canary Wharf, Poplar and even Blackwall are within a couple of hundred yards. The DLR is set up that way, four stations inside half a mile, I assume to spread passenger loadings between multiple stations. Of course Crossrail won't actually have sensible...

It depends on light conditions really. If there's decent light I'll wander round with a camera. If not, or I just don't feel like photography, I always make sure I have at least one book or magazine with me. I'm perennially behind with reading RAIL.

That would rely on angry people applying logic.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbuck007/7543200858 is a class 150 Sprinter. Is this what you were thinking of?

True, but that was more a Car replacement rail service.

The solution to domestic violence is not to ban multiple marriages (and I should note I am not necessarily referring to one man marrying several women, but to more complex unions - triads, quads, interlocking marriages, etc), but to empower people. All too often people either do not report...

On an unrelated note to marriage equality and tolerance, I think that an in/out referendum on EU membership is an incredibly bad idea. Let me explain why. I am a pretty well-informed voter, yet I have not read the various treaties and such that form the EU, its governance and our role in...

I'd like to first point out that "gay marriage" is a misnomer, and isn't what people want. Gay marriage would allow marriage between people of the same sex. What we want is marriage equality - that anyone can be married to anyone else (provided they are of legal age, consent freely, etc)...

Well the tube has a pretty good system for it. First off, in most places it's impossible to even get on the network without going through a ticket barrier in the first place. A bigger worry might be incorrect routing, but it assumes you went the expensive way unless you touch in elsewhere. I...

I don't mind people eating on trains generally, but it does depend what they're eating. In any communal situation there has to be some accommodation, that is why the microwaves in my office kitchen say "please do not cook fish". A warm cornish pastie isn't smelly, a hot chicken korma is. I did...

I do wonder why Norwich to Liverpool isn't an XC service, beyond it not going through Birmingham.

But they're NOT safety announcements, they are information specifically for those going to Stansted Airport, which is entirely irrelevant, and indeed aggravating, for anyone else onboard. If you're looking for safety information there's usually a poster near the carriage doors.

It sounds to me like this is one of the occasional attempts to catch fare dodgers. From that First Great Western TV programme I understand that what they do is pick a particular station and set up shop there for a day, on the grounds that fare dodgers, like other travellers, likely have a fairly...

At least we don't have the American system - they are effectively in a permanent election what with the House being entirely reelected every two years and Senate elections every two years as well (albeit only for 1/3 of the members). They have got to the point where the Democrats have a...

Proportional representation would be the best possible idea, but if we want to keep with local representation then Single Transferable Vote (STV) would be the ideal. Instead of choosing one candidate, you rank as many candidates as you want numerically. There are several rounds of counting...

It's quite possible that no party would be willing to countenance an actual coalition with the SNP, on the grounds that you can't have a national government involving people who think the nation shouldn't exist. Labour may be willing to work with the SNP case-by-case, but a coalition seems unlikely.