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Only on the rare occasions I travel first class and know a ticket inspection will take place shortly on leaving Euston

Bunches of flowers delivered to embarrassed colleagues on Valentines Day Star phones in conference rooms which had to be moved up and down the room so the person speaking could be heard at the other end - all replaced by video conferencing Photos of children/pets/partners on colleagues' desk -...

We occasionally get police briefings at our central London office, biggest risks as others have mentioned are ride by mobile phone snatches (common around London Bridge), bags stolen in pubs and mobile phones snatched from pub/restaurant/cafe tables. What can be intimidating but not usually...

The problem is possibly that we are always fighting the last war and it takes so long to bring new weapons into use. The present conflict in Ukraine shows some weapons are now practically useless, eg some ground support aircraft while the use of drone swarms to overwhelm air defences requires a...

Its a bit of a myth that BR maintained connections, there were guidelines on which trains could be held and for how long which was generally more flexible than now but there were also plenty of trains which were not to be held and plenty of missed connections. 1667567751 I certainly travelled...

She is - her sacking as Home Secretary by Liz Truss was just as much about their differences on immigration as sending documents from a gmail account. Braverman wants to go back to the Tory aim of reducing immigration to 10s of thousands while Truss and now Sunak are more relaxed if immigration...

BTP command should not have been involved in the incident at all as they had nothing to offer and no local knowledge. It just added another layer of confusion as to who was in control. The local BTP officers as the OP mentions were rightly praised for their immediate response but there appeared...

National Express made a loss of £13m in the UK in the first six months of 2022. UK passengers are effectively being subsidised by National Express' US and Spanish passengers which is where they are profitable.

Merriman has a good understanding of all modes of transport, will be interesting how he changes from poacher to game keeper. The Transport Committee is still waiting for a response to its report on road user charging where they came out firmly in favour.

Depends on what you are buying - picked up lots of bargains over the years which make up for the occasional rip off but postage charges seem to have gone up a lot recently as has the imposition of VAT on some items brought from the EU.

Many cities have proposed underground systems at some stage, Southampton and Cambridge being two recent examples 1667048159 Its population density rather than size that makes an underground viable. UK cities tend to be sprawled out. London's underground serves only a small part of Greater...

Most of the points raised are not ridiculous from the perspective of a store trying to increase its revenue!

The world of course is full of people without bank accounts and smartphones travelling on night trains to an airport! Taxis are public transport and app only payments to use the likes of Uber and Lyft have been around for years.

I think its great border stations have been run down. Another set of new border stations are Buzet and Rakitovec in Croatia and Slovenia. The service is now down to just one train a day in the summer running between the two.

It just goes into the general pot of government revenues

NI does not pay for the NHS.

Sunak on 85, Johnson on 63, Mordaunt (the only one who has said she will definitely stand) 23. An alternative view puts Sunak on 82, Johnson on 48 and Mordaunt on 21 - see...

Rishi now overtaken Boris 56 to 52 with Penny at 19.

He is up to 42 now!

According to the Guido Fawkes website Boris Johnson already has 36 backers, Rishi Sunak 26 and Penny Mordaunt 10 - so Boris could be on his way back! Website link https://order-order.com/2022/10/20/whos-backing-who-the-spreadsheet-returns/ Penny Mordaunt seems to the only one already actively...