This is one of my personal irritations - fare dodging is endemic at East Ham but unfortunately Sadiq Khan and Transport for London seem happy to go running to the Government for extra money rather than trying to recoup the lost fares. C2C and I have to say the Elizabeth Line seem a lot more proactive about dealing with fare dodgers and anti-social behaviour on trains such as begging.
I know it's tiny in the cosmic scheme of things but it's this low-level criminality which degrades the quality of life in, I suspect, not just London but other towns and cities.
Its also one of those things if it isn't clamped down it just becomes endemic. There are bus routes in NYC where basically nobody pays now, because the authorities just waved it away and it grew and grew and of course the people paying went well f##k this if nobody else is paying and nobody does anything about it, we aren't going to either.
We have of course seen similar with shop lifting. The last government went really weak on it and now there is both casual I will take what I want and also organised crime has moved in on it.
Indeed and to argue as @Fishing has it's all Sadiq's fault and have a pop at him is mistaken as I suspect this is a problem in most towns and cities and on most transport systems.
Shop lifting is another big issue in East Ham High Street - the big stores all have security though how effective that is I'm not sure.
As you say, it's a problem which didn't begin on July 5th. There may be some technological answer in time but the current "gate" system at most tube stations is useless as (and it's primarily young men) they can be pushed through without too much effort or the weaker simply tailgate through the luggage gates and avoid paying.
I've seen different figures as to the cost of fare evasion but TfL must know where the problems are - to be fair (sorry), when the revenue protection squad turns up at East Ham, they get a fine catch of fare dodgers and evaders so it can be done.
Couple of weeks ago I saw someone actually do that (went the wrong way through the luggage gates). Was somewhat surprised when I objected and attracted the attention of the guard… tried to claim (in a south London accent) that he didn’t speak English…
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This is one of my personal irritations - fare dodging is endemic at East Ham but unfortunately Sadiq Khan and Transport for London seem happy to go running to the Government for extra money rather than trying to recoup the lost fares. C2C and I have to say the Elizabeth Line seem a lot more proactive about dealing with fare dodgers and anti-social behaviour on trains such as begging.
I know it's tiny in the cosmic scheme of things but it's this low-level criminality which degrades the quality of life in, I suspect, not just London but other towns and cities.
Give Khan a break. He's too busy lecturing Donald Trump and whacking up taxes to pay for e.g. £10 million on a training course featuring tests to determine the “colour” of Met Police officers’ personalities, a six figure salary for a "night czar" or £500,000 of free ads for a vaginal moisturiser company (that one is just bizarre).
You really can't expect him to pay attention to trivialities like public safety.
One of my clients is an incredible hard bitten and cynical Australian who sits on the executive committee of a large US public company. She swears by the colour test - they did it at her firm and it has been really impactful in helping teams work together much more effectively
Your naivety on Trump is very much at odds with the rest of your observations. It is an oligarchs paradise designed to make the billionaires like Musk and Ramaswamy take out more from govt spending. The outcome of their review will be that govt spending should flow through Musk.Inc, Ramaswamy.Inc and TheirFriends.Incs rather than civil service run departments. They will take a slice and offer a worse service. The failures of Capita and Serco x100.
Government spending will rise quickly under Trump as it did last time.
Trump picks for second go around, certainly doesn't look like it will be any quieter than the first time.
Trump said in the Rogan interview that one thing he messed up first time around, as an outsider, was to pick too many of the existing swamp creatures to run departments, and that he was determined not to the same this time. There’s definitely a few outsiders and reformists on the list for 2025.
The Peter Sentenello video highlights well the amount of waste and corruption that exists in DC, that a president not in hock to the lobbyists should be able to eliminate.
Donald Trump is the only US President ever to be convicted of corruption. He’s already effectively been selling cabinet posts. Last time he was in power vast sums of money were diverted to his own business interests.
You think he won’t be in hock to lobbyists? They’ll just need to pay more.
What we are going to see is a vast transfer of wealth from the poorer to the richer, and a consequent reduction in the little help the poor and poorer get from the state.
It's a bold experiment, and to be fair to Trump's administration, it is something that he said they would do. But a question is how long a state can remain a state when the masses are ruled over by an oligarchy.
The US was definitely in a great state after his first term.
Be interesting to know exactly what it was that was tweeted and the fully story.
I do find the whole idea of non-crime hate incident worrying creep. You have either allegedly committed a crime, in which the police should be investigating, or you haven't, and they shouldn't.
Its a bit like the recent cases of people being offensive at the football. They are arseholes, but they aren't unique in that, being an arsehole and disrespectful shouldn't be a crime, rather society can decide for themselves what they think about such people.
Be interesting to know exactly what it was that was tweeted and the fully story.
I do find the whole idea of non-crime hate incident worrying creep. You have either allegedly committed a crime, in which the police should be investigating, or you haven't, and they shouldn't.
Its a bit like the recent cases of people being offensive at the football. They are arseholes, but they aren't unique in that, being an arsehole and disrespectful shouldn't be a crime, rather society can decide for themselves what they think about such people.
“You have either allegedly committed a crime, in which the police should be investigating, or you haven't, and they shouldn't.” Reading the article, the police say they are investigating an alleged crime. Pearson appears to have misunderstood.
So something I wanted to investigate today was what signals there were available before the election that showed a Trump wave and I think it was on YouTube. I went back an looked at video metrics with a broadly pro-Trump vs pro-Harris and the difference was massive.
What I found was that videos on the pro-Trump side had huge subscribers to views ratios, you'd get videos from people with just 50k subscribers getting 2-3m views and the larger content creators with between 1m and 2m subs were easily doing over their total subscriber numbers, that to me says there's a level of grassroots interest in the content and generally these videos are pulling in lots of new eyeballs who aren't necessarily interested in politics or Trump, it's likely that they've seen the video shared somewhere in group chat or by some personality on Instagram or tiktok.
After watching the videos what also struck me is that 9/10 of them are either someone speaking into a camera from their bedroom just chatting about Trump and going through some of the new news or a react video or they're a guy with a camera man and a mic talking to real people getting real life opinions on screen, obviously they're edited so I can't take what was on screen as the full truth but the production values were very, err, rustic. What also surprised me was the sheer number of interviews with black and Latino people voting for Trump in working class areas and the reasons for those people voting for Trump all being broadly the same - jobs, prices, illegal immigrants.
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The American right is very strong on YouTube. And of course the Daily Wire has turned into a huge operation, over 1 million paying subscribers.
Farage has been following a similar approach taping into YouTube, regularly gets 100k+ views on a video.
I think what's most interesting is that Trump supporting channels outside of a few very prominent ones like infowars or the daily wire are basically just a bloke/woman in a room speaking into a mic about what's going on in the world while the ones on the left have got really high production values with full sets/studios and they all feel like they're connected to the DNC in some way. It makes the Trump content feel much more authentic, when it's people talking about their own journeys or their own experiences and how that relates to what's happening wrt Trump vs Biden/Harris you don't feel sceptical because why would they lie? A lot of the time they disagree with Trump as well, one of the bigger streamers seemed to disagree with Trump on quite a lot very openly. They just never seemed to capture that kind of authenticity with the Harris content, or very rarely. You can see it too, the top viewed content for Harris seems to come from the campaign itself, for Trump it's from third party creators who support him.
But what YouTube shows you is based on what you’ve watched/liked before. You need to log out of your account, preferably use a new installation on a new device, use a VPN so you appear to be in the US, and then repeat the exercise in order to get an unbiased view of what videos are being made and watched.
In general I tend to prefer contributions from the hereditary peers to the appointed members of the HoL.
That’s interesting. Maybe there should be some way where your preference could input into deciding who goes into the HoL. What about if we had a bunch of people who might go to the Lords and you, me and everyone else got to indicate who we would prefer?
Couldn't disagree more with both of these: the WHO and the "experts". You don't need it to be higher than 16 degrees imo.
"Experts slam the World Health Organisation's advice to set your home thermostat at 18°C - and insist your house needs to be at least 20°C to keep you warm this winter"
Personally I’m quite happy with 18 but it does lead to a few issues with damp. So I have put mine up to 19.
Our thermostat was set to 17, but when I checked it with a thermometer it turned out the thermostat was poorly calibrated, and it was actually about 20.
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"British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital"
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Government spending will rise quickly under Trump as it did last time.
And what he's proposing now is even madder.
Oh, nothing much
JUST INVENTED A FUCKING COCKTAIL, THAT’S ALL
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