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I really am surprised at how thrown staff from, say, a credit card company get when they call me, unbidden, from a hidden / unverifiable number and then I ask them for a verifiable number on which I can call them back. It is quite literally as if no-one has asked them this question before and...

Subject to counter-claims from several other clubs, not least Chelsea. Patently false. I can remember it at Chelsea in the early 1970s.

This probably shouldn't happen because it would be a bit stupid. However, it should happen because extreme mawkishness is now the default position in football and hence we should have a moment's silence (or worse, the truly toe-curling moment's applause) for absolutely bloody everything.

And for all the fury and all the essays, no-one has yet tackled his central point - that Thatcherism received a 50% approval rating in a credible newspaper poll. This is trivially true, yet it costs nothing at all to give a negative response to Thatcherism to a newspaper pollster, and half the...

Pretty much like the overwhelming majority of Premier League games then as regards the before and after.

Perhaps most interesting is that the Graun chooses to headline the article as "divided opinion..." One could equally well argue that it's a remarkable achievement of any modern western leader to achieve 50% overall approval, with the benefit of 20 years of 20-20 hindsight following their...

I always thought it was a bit rubbish and pointless.

More to the point perhaps, how does it help 455? I genuinely don't get how DOB helps.

Hm... parallels... Tough love (some say extremely / overly tough) administered to an ailing system Likely inevitability of eventual outcome; hard to construct a counterfactual with a radically different ending Bitterly divisive at the time and since; liable to cause strong antipathetic...

The (fairly important) bit that's inevitably left out of this line of argument is what would have happened other than for Thatcher. The answer is that a lot of the pain, humiliation and destruction was probably inevitable. Such may have been avoided, or at least reduced, with a deeply...

"Allow reduced transfer time across London" on national rail planner puts you on the 11:00 ex Waterloo.

It probably wouldn't, as you've been told before. You still seem to be finding rather simple things quite difficult, so I will try again. In this situation things are likely to be fine, but technically you are breaching the terms of an Advance, and sooner or later an over-officious TM may call...

Ï wonder (doubt) if anyone within Northern who knows the difference (between RoRA and Byelaws) has looked at this yet.

Well then let me just say that anyone who feels offended by - or in need of apology for - elements of an Internet discussion of the finer technical points of a set of railway ticketing regulations, is a very very strange individual.

I seriously hope you're being sarcastic.

In terms of talk about poker and the like, are we perhaps assuming that if it ends up in court that the ToC will go for a RoRA prosecution? (I know that's what the FPN says but that isn't a court summons, is it?) A Byelaw prosecution looks like a strong prospect (whatever the rights and wrongs...

I think you'll find it isn't but that almost all of its users have DORKING STNS tickets for which the "credit" (presumably) goes to Dorking or to Deepdene.

Maybe beliefs should be "permitted" rather than "reasonable"? :D

The media is one thing - but michael769 has outlined above, pretty convincingly to my eyes, that "wrong" and "subject to legal redress" are far from one and the same.

... although this may be confused with the notion that it's required to seek out the guard and that any failure to do so is meaningful in terms of the rules.