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Can they also budget for house prices to revert to historic norms? The first house I bought in 1997 was for £68500. It sold for £310,000 in 2015.

You can get the DVD box set for £2.99 https://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/store/products/blackadder-remastered-the-ultimate-edition and not have to deal with the adverts

If find Rome2Rio.com good for an overview of alternative routes. I would not rely too much on the prices and timetables that they quote, but it quotes £14-£35 for the 2 hour 51 minute train journey from Kraków to Przemyśl The "Get In" section of the WikiVoyage article is good for how to get...

This is Hansard on the debate on Tuesday 13 June 2023 with speeches from: Richard Fuller, North East Bedfordshire, Con Wera Hobhouse, Bath, Liberal Democrat Daniel Zeichner, Cambrdge, Lab Anthony Browne, South Cambridgeshire, Con Mohammad Yasin, Bedford, Lab Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Slough...

I wanted times to get from Kings Cross to Heathrow terminal 5. I wanted to go on the Elizabeth line, to try it out. I found it was quite difficult to get it as an itinerary which only used the Thameslink and Elizabeth Lines. National Rail only gives itineraries with the Heathrow Express, even...

Blackfriars to London Bridge gives you a view of lots of central London

... but with the uncosted and politically toxic disruption to get the railway across the A14. There would still need to be a junction with the line between Cambridge and Waterbeach. Would that be grade separated?

There is. I got one from Ely station

Do the costings for the Northern route into Cambridge include the cost of delays on the A14 whilst building a crossing for the railway? That has both the cost to the economy, and the political cost, as it would turn a significant number of voting A14 users puce with rage. If this had been...

For entertainment value, I can recommend wandering around a suburb in Spain with a famished grumpy German, for whom 7pm is closer to their bedtime, than the start time for anywhere to serve hot food.

The Signals to Danger podcast by tpfx89 had this episode on Quintinshill

When did you buy the ticket? At archive.org there is a snapshot from April 5th 2023 where it has a Terms and conditions section which says: That is not mentioned in the snapshot from December 15th 2022

This is slightly cleaned up from the Youtube transcript of the interview between Sophy Ridge and Grant Shapps:

This is a comment from Jacob Rees Mogg at the National Conservativism conference https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65599380

https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/article/143926/is-the-era-of-uncomfortable-train-seats-coming-to-an-end/ has an interview with Ian Yeowart, Managing Director of Grand Union Trains, and their plans for 2+1 seating in standard class for the Carmarthen service.

This is a 320 page report from 2011 with the title "Realising the Potential of GB Rail Final Independent Report of the Rail Value for Money Study". The report was originally commissioned by Lord Adonis at the end of the last Labour government, but it says that the the Study’s general approach...

This is a report by Arthur D. Little Limited on Risk Aversion in the UK Rail Industry from 2005 https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20060215234818/http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_railways/documents/page/dft_railways_035013.pdf Page 4 says:

Here is a helpful instructional video

I'm happy for people to make an effort to dress up, and to do so in a place where everyone else is dressing up. Its just that I don't particularly want to join them, and if there is a choice of places to eat, I'll go for somewhere without a dress code. If its a wedding, I'll blend in, but I'd...