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Proposed by N Kinnock and not something I. for personal reasons ,would support. The comparison he makes with VAT on private school feeas is spurious since there is already a 12% tax on insurance premiums whereas there is no such tax on school fees

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/penny-mordaunt-jewish-government-john-mann-lord-b2787977.html She, like so many others, including the Board of Deputies, seem unable to distinguish between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Deploring the actions of the IDF in Gaza is not...

mods note - split from this thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/the-labour-party-under-keir-starmer.272035/ Premium Bonds are a good tax free investment. I made £375 on £10000 last year. I would have needed to make 6.25% on a taxed investment to better that. I maxed out to £50000 in...

Yesterday I bought an off peak day return between Whaley Bridge and Manchester Piccadilly. But the line between Buxton and Hazel Grove was closed all day. So I took a service bus to Stockport and continued by train for there. And returned the same way: train to Stockport then bus home. Am I...

Does anyone know where the failure was. There were no trains between the two yesterday but there was an advertised train in the evening to Furness Vale

Do you think that Trump has a real chance of being the next Pope? Of being the bestist Pope ever. Will the conclave take the risk of the Vatican being annexed by the USA? I doubt if the Swiss Guard could fend of a unit of US Marines

There is an East Midlands service from Manchester to Nottingham and Norwich which splits at Nottingham leaving two coaches to go on to Norwich.. What puzzles me is that it is the two front coaches which are detached at Nottingham. Common sense would say that you would drop the back two coaches...

Whenever I try to find a train using the Trainline App I get the cute but unhelpful message: "Well this is awkward. No tickets available, please refine your search" This happens on any service even where I can book them elsewhere. I hav e reinstalled the app but just the same. any ideas?

If I do that would I be liable to a penalty fare?

What is the point of cars with only two doors into the passenger compartment? Are they a lot cheaper? I have had a couple of these because they seemed to be a bargain. The one that was my personal transport I junked the rear seats and used it as a van. But the one that was a family car was a...

I read that the government is encouraging research into small nuclear reactors as part of its green agends. But surely effective small nuclear are already in use in marine applications: submarines, aircraft carriers, ice-breakers. Why can't these designs be repurposed to generate electricity?

Does anyone have any opinion advice on this model. I am looking at a 65 plate with 43,000 miles and FSH at a little over $4K. The claimed range is 149 miles. Is that realistic?

If I buy an advance ticket from TOC_A and the booked train is so delayed that a train operated by T_B arrives before it am I entitled to travel on that train or must I wait for the next TOC_A train?

If your train is replaced by a bus it invariably takes longer than the timetabled time. In those circumstances can you claim a delay repay or is this "special circumstance"?

I make a journey from A to B splitting at C. I buy a ticket from A to C at the start and buy a ticket from C to B whilst in transit from A to C. Am I at any point in breach of the regulations?

What does it mean if the platform number on a departure board is flashing?

Do family run farms deserve preferential tax status over other small family businesses? The current exemptions are a gift to rich bar stewards like Clarkson. And there are several ways of minimising or even avoiding IHT

Several manufacturers are advertising "self charging" electric vehicles. As far as I can ascertain these vehicles have a petrol engine which drives a generator to charge a battery. The actual traction is provided by electric motors drawing power from the battery. To my mind a vehicle where the...

Why is the new bus station in Stockport called an "interchange" rather than the more prosaic "bus station"?

In my shed I have a number plate from nearly every car I have owned (they are the trailer board plates). For nostalgia's sake I would like to find out which car each plate belonged to, Is there any way to do that?