I find the next GE incredibly difficult to call. On the one hand: massive Labour swing implied by the polls. On the other: this is going to be the least UNS-y election I can remember. We have the Red… (View Post)

If you want to be depressed about the state of Britain, click on the links. (The page is about 20 years old, I think.) The German mittelstands are by and large still trading. So are the Japanese fami… (View Post)

Another example of why painted cycle lanes are pretty useless really. (View Post)

The Paddington-Hereford service still runs. It just stops at about 15 stations along the way (including the town where I live) and the track is fairly slow, so it's often faster to take a 125mph run … (View Post)

Definitely not closed, though there are fewer Paddington-Hereford trains than there used to be - you'll often have to change at Malvern or Worcester. But it is often quicker to change at Newport so t… (View Post)