As an oldie, my memory differs. BR had many problems, but lateness and, particularly, cancellations were not that common. Nowadays, on many lines, they are everyday occurrences. And it's cancell… (View Post)

The refrain "no worse than it was under BR" is oft repeated on here. Regardless of whether it's true, shouldn't it be the case that, regardless of ownership, trains should be a lo… (View Post)

On helicopters, Sunak is planning GE 24 to be like the great scene from Goodfellas, isn't he? Henry Hill (Starmer) drives around desperately trying to seal the deal, while Sunak tracks him menac… (View Post)

I think that's spot on. The old class-based analysis of voting led by people like Butler & Stokes is well past its sell-by date. Party loyalties (largely class-based) back in the seventies a… (View Post)

In the examples I know it's nothing to do with anti-semitism. Everybody was outraged by the Hamas attacks. But the huge devastation of Gaza and the loss of civilian lives is seen as a disproport… (View Post)