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Leaving aside the specific issue of remuneration, this is a big part of the problem with modern politics for me - the idea that the country is run by a combination of these "professional politicians" and of lawyers. Both groups share the curious feature of knowing absolutely nothing about the...

I wasn't even a twinkle in my mother's eye until well after 1955 :wink: but I'm something of a student of the game I suppose. It's certainly true there's considerably more Test cricket these days, but nonetheless the likes of Trueman used to send down a thousand overs a season, year after...

I never use forums' in-house searches any more - anywhere. Google or other search engine with a site-specific filter invariably works better in my experience.

In the good old days with proper spacing between Test matches, players would have been turning out in first-class cricket for their counties in the interim period. So perhaps not so different, at least from the players' recovery time perspective.

An implicit tenet of this entire argument seems to be that votes for candidates that have no chance of "win(ning) the seat let alone enough to form a government, coalition or majority..." are literally wasted. A corollary of this is that MPs cannot and do not represent those in their...

I don't buy the "should have walked" line. Unless absolutely everyone else does it, you can't criticise anyone for not doing it. You CAN logically praise those that do walk, and suggest that this is what you would like to see, but criticising those who don't is a logical house of cards.

Aussies will try and big up "Broadygate" no doubt, but just a couple of pre-emptive points: 1. I think it impossible whatever happens for the decision to make a bigger material difference to the likely outcome of the game than the missed stumping. We can start talking when Bell and Broad have...

I've no idea why you're rolling your eyes.

Did you read the (third sentence / paragraph of) the article?

Agreed. As we all know, the line "belongs to the umpire" so its thickness is irrelevant. There's no question that any part of the foot was BEHIND the line. Any time Aleem Dar looks as bemused as he did when forced to overturn, you know that something's very likely wrong. To be fair I...

Great post on all counts. The stumping decision, in particular, was abominable. One technical point which occurred to me at the time is that for line calls like that, the on-field umpires are not required to give a decision in the first place; they simply refer it straight upstairs. That results...

Perhaps just to show I'm not completely biased in favour of the operators, I'd speculate they'd say something ridiculous like you have to get off the train and on again at Carlisle.

It was a PR disaster only because the public want both cheap tickets and the ability to ride roughshod over the terms and conditions thereof if they feel like it.

It turns out that Sakhalin's rail network is already connected to that of the Russian mainland by train ferry, and a permanent link is mooted (indeed formally planned, although whether it will happen is obviously something else). So "all" that remains in the way of a (theoretical)...

I'm sure at least some of them do realise it, and I expect it does their collective head in. Whilst some of the issue is down to practicability, and there is no doubt that operators "could do more", I think it unrealistic to imply (as the above quote seems to) that these problems are...

Actually, living overseas and struggling with systems and elements of culture of all sorts (about far more important stuff than bloody train tickets) I've probably forgotten more of this sort of stuff than you ever knew.

I'm sorry to tell you that the worrying of keyboard warriors over things like "default positions" bears no relation to anything that ticketless travellers actually care about, or anything that makes any difference to anyone in the real world. Ticketless travellers don't want to be treated from...

You started this rant in response to someone who SPECIFICALLY said "if I screwed up in those circumstances I would expect to take the consequences". But hey, continue yelling at the sky.

In other words, ignore the rules if the passenger says "please ignore the rules".

All this indignation is very nice, but what is anyone supposed to actually do (differently)?