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It is as if the Tories had selected Chris Grayling as their new leader: i.e the only possible person who might have been worse than Liz Truss. Yousaf has already as near admitted that if a by-election has to be fought soon he'd expect to lose it! His glibness will impress very few who don't...

I have to take cover - I have a former best friend, now mortal enemy who lives there.:smile:

Accessibility requirements would be problematic too.

X119 could be much quicker by avoiding Hayes and going directly between Bromley and West Wickham: the Beckenham routeing via Shortlands formerly used by the 726 has to be discounted for various reasons e.g. compulsory single decking and the route not serving Bromley South Station. A really...

I must have forgotten. Now, why did I go upstairs? :D

Must admit, my age and general befuddlement made me wonder what this thread was going to be about. For an instant I wondered whether a Rev Awdry unpublished story had been discovered where Thomas and Henry were getting up to things in the engine shed after lights out, so I was a bit disappointed...

An unidentified open topper was on the 19 this afternoon. I don't recollect ever having seen one on it before.

I don't think Professor John Curtice of Glasgow University deals in guff. He has a regular column in the i newspaper, as well as being quoted in the Times and other serious papers. Who'd have thought the DUP might have had a material effect on the 2017 election result, culminating in all the...

Initial thoughts: 1)Superloop seems a rather gauche name, in view of the existence of superloos 2)It gives me the impression of something quickly thrown together in response to a frantic edict from the Mayor that he has to mollify outer London residents currently reliant on older cars, before...

I once parked my car on a rather steep hill in Saltash, in the evening - an hour or so later, returning to the spot, my car was missing! Only then did I see it nudged up for comfort behind another car about ten yards down: luckily for me, there was no sign of any damage to either car, but it was...

If Labour are to achieve an absolute majority they would require perhaps a 15% swing overall from the Tories in England and Wales if they continued to do badly in Scotland, but an extra 15 to 20 seats in the latter country (to add to the existing one!) might only mean around a 9% swing south of...

Yes, I forgot to mention the chill factor - I almost thought I'd imagined it, but so many others around me mentioned it afterwards. We had a bit of clapping on Penzance Promenade, but it was mostly awestruck silence. I later asked my cousin whether her father, who'd witnessed the 1927(?) total...

I don't believe there have been any mentions of London bus routes so far, not that they seem to have been excluded by the OP. Two or three years ago, dozens of routes all over London would have passed muster, but now half or more of these have gone to 12 or even 15 minute intervals, even at...

Total eclipse of the sun, West Cornwall August 11th, 1999, at 11.11 a.m. Unfortunately Mother Nature decided to intervene with dark clouds and rain for almost the totality of the eclipse period, including the brief couple of minutes of the total eclipse, but it was still an eerie and awesome...

Watford to Euston could become the Watson, which would then beggar the question 'which is the Holmes?' :D

As stated by a West Sussex policeman in court evidence under oath, and we all know that policemen never lie.:!:

At least in the USA you have CNN and, to an extent. MSNBC to counter the Fox diet of MAGA and Trump's latest bombast, whereas here there is nothing mainstream to offer an alternative to GB News. The BBC is gripped by its impartiality 'rules' now being interpreted to mean that the Tories and...

Freddie Starr eating the hamster has definitely been exposed as a myth, and as for the Routemaster bus found on the moon, I've news: it wasn't on the 159 route but the 137, the one I was waiting for on Leigham Court Road that had left Oxford Circus but never turned up. :D It's also an Urban...

Indeed. The pioneering Helston to the Lizard bus service started by the GWR catered for passengers transferring from the railway at Helston, which was conceived as an intermediate stop on the branch line before its eventual extension to the Lizard. In the event, extension never came (wisely, in...