As if he is a King. (My own country's oath is to the King and successors/assigns, but constitutional monarchs tend to interfere very little.)
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As if he is a King. (My own country's oath is to the King and successors/assigns, but constitutional monarchs tend to interfere very little.)
Should local buses be free (or very cheap)? I'm in two minds - I don't want to encourage bus riding for journeys that can be easily walked, especially if it congests the bus, but then a lot of buses are more than half-empty (e.g. in Newport) where free riding does little harm.
Oxford has one of the country’s best bus services, though?
Few supermarkets do this, and someone can probably make an excuse. I'd rather everyone who didn't need to drive to hospital didn't.
I may be hated at for this - I don't think NHS parking should be free, especially for hospitals near towns/cities. It is very difficult to ensure the parking is actually used for users of the hospital.
I am not sure this is actually correct either, as it seems that the Flag of Europe is technically a Council of Europe flag, and so can be flown on that basis. www.coe.int/en/web/about...
Why is it effectively illegal to display the Flag of Europe in the UK, unless defaced with a lower-case 'e'? www.gov.uk/government/p... (I say "effectively illegal" as you would need the same full planning permission as needed to build a house.)
“Unpaid excess toll” 😉
Or it could be $100 or whatever the fine is(
I thought yellow lines were at the side of the road and meant “no parking”?
Maybe they’re looking for lawyers and count by billed hours?
A 180 day notice would extend beyond January, of course.
Far more serious than closing the service to Newhaven Marine! www.orr.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
WTF? So an actual 180-day "Notice of Withdrawal of Passenger Rail Services"?
Massive pain if you didn't have one on the roof permanently pointed at your "local" transmitter (note - the one with the best signal isn't necessarily "yours").
At minimum, doing it in the middle of the stream is highly irregular, especially if doing it for the sake of so doing.
Why is there no Apple Store in Oxford, but there is one in Cambridge? Surely Oxonians have as much need of Apple kit, or repairs, as Cantabrigians? (I know my own nearest is in Cardiff, and the last time I needed the services of an Apple store it was at Covent Garden.)
Heh, I was too busy going home from London, and my suitcase wouldn't have been allowed even though in theory I could have used my rail ticket from London Terminals to Newport Gwent to get there (indeed from City Thameslink, which would have saved me a Farringdon to Paddington fare).
I wonder if everyone will do their utmost to cut the US out of supply chains?
At a certain point, this constant barrage of threats has got to become exhausting for people, right? Is this what conservatives want? It’s a random Wednesday.
Should we tear down the Westway in London? Or should we make it a tram/bus/cycle/pedestrian exclusive route and have a tram along Euston Road (and continuing roads to Liverpool Street, not sure how far to go westwards)?
I at least hope they have San Francisco Service Permits for each route in SF! The way that all buses in Greater Manchester not part of the Bee Network need GM Service Permits.
This would be the most extreme dystopia. Especially since Uber fares are totally unpredictable as it is.
What is the point of the Uber #RouteShare service? Why shouldn't I just get a normal bus? They have tried this before too with #UberHOP. www.wired.com/story/uberho... www.uber.com/blog/route-s...
Apparently it's OK if only left-wing people are cancelled.
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
Likely true, I hope we can avoid reaching them. A lot on the right wing seem unconcerned, unconcerned with the future (including their own future, as think tanks mostly have fairly young people).
@garethdennis.uk Will there be a reupload of the 30 July 2025 #Railnatter, as the upload didn't work (most of it had a green screen, though the audio worked). I gave up watching, I retried twice and it was still a failed upload.
I think that the Welsh summer is as warm as it is, and has been at least last year, are signs that the tipping point has been reached.
Did Trump at least send it to Environment? #yesprimeminister youtu.be/0DIy-C4cQ-M
It is not lawful in most countries to comply with this.
NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
Why is the UK uniquely reluctant among Western nations to run non-sleeper overnight trains?
"Weather Machines are creating weather events including tornadoes, hurricanes, floods etc." These conspiracy theories keep getting worse. They are FALSE & dangerous misinformation that is spreading throughout the internet. These conspiracy theorists have no understanding in meteorology -- at all.
I hate to support MTG or Boebert on anything, but wow.
Are Disney in general failing?
I thought that was strictly unlawful for obvious reasons?
Seemingly, yes, or at least SCOTUS seems Supremely unwilling to do anything about it.
Trump apparently doesn’t care.
It might because Trump doesn’t care about following the law or the constitution. Otherwise he’d be in jail.
Surely this is unlawful and illegal, not that Trump seems to care?
Phones didn’t act as bus passes and payment cards then, nor was it as important as it is now to be able to instantly look up details.
So they should have to walk rather than get the bus to school? Sometimes the phone is their bus pass.
Inter alia, sometimes the phone is their bus ticket?
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
What are the deportation criteria - a colour chart? Accent checking?
This is I think literally worse than Hitler.
Why shouldn’t someone call the police?
Wasn’t Trump the one who moaned about such in 2020?
Isn’t Trump? After all, who pays for the golf trips? If Trump insists on playing golf, surely there must be a local military base with an officers’ course.
I do, my house has too much rubbish I can’t be bothered to bin. I doubt that is your point.
Or at least "ejectment". As happens if you have the wrong ticket. www.nytimes.com/2004/02/10/n...
Agreed! After all, you can potentially go to jail in NYC for having the wrong ticket for the subway, SIR, LIRR, MNRR or bus. theappeal.org/a-night-in-j...
Agreed, few live next door to schools (actually at least one school in Newport didn't have its road reduced to 20 mph, and the private school in Monmouth actually still has a main road remaining at 50 mph). It's houses where the lower limits really matter.
Agreed, at least the bit near the A4232 flyover.
I guess Trump and Musk want people who are sycophants so won’t jail them?
I don’t think Alcatraz is big enough for a golf course!
And people apparently think this is preferable? It’s definitely not a “reform”, it’s a “regression” at best.
No, they’d need 10 states. Even if the King were willing to contemplate it (they do have a King, it is the same person as my King).
I hope this doesn’t apply to people with actual tickets to use the service owned by the FlixBus boys including Daniel Krauss.
Alas there is no-one to vote for.
Support those colleges and universities who are fighting the Trump administration’s Fascist impulses and tramples on the US Constitution. This is what governmental overreach looks like, “freedom” folks. Time to wake up. Your freedoms are being trampled. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Of course “trade deficits” have nothing at all to do with tariffs.
They’re “libertarians” in name only.
The delusional disconnect from reality of Trump supporters teaches a number of lessons. Currently it's how people will actively buy into self harm if the snake oil salesmen selling it say the right things. Propaganda 101 - Messaging rides roughshod over reality. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...
Quite. Evangelicals still, for some time after the Happy Meal was introduced, did not believe that abortion was inherently evil. www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...
Congratulations USA You have become an enemy to most countries and have become irrelevant. You deserve better. Fix this.
I guess 31 tph intercity out of NYC is off the table even though five out of the 14 London termini provide that?
Towed it to the scrapyard?
I saw this on the less good app. At best the NEC is 5 tph intercity (not counting commuter). The WCML is *9 tph* intercity, and this is one of only five intercity lines out of London (the GWML is 8 tph, the MML and ECML seem to be 6 tph, and the GEML is 2 tph).
Is it at least an “emotional support” dog?
Well they can’t just fly as the airline would reject them, hence the dangerous routes they have to take.
The fact that Trump won the popular vote (even if by slightly less than 50%) and his inexplicable popularity suggests that your country is no longer great.
Alas it’s difficult, as if they can claim closer they can presumably stay in the place they claim, so any claim in (say) Turkey for asylum in the UK would be summarily rejected.
I agree!
It hurts the interests of the coal industry or the oil and gas industry?
Also it happens to have a King. Which happens to be *my* king in the UK (though the roles are formerly separate). King Charles tends not to interfere in government, though he does frequently talk with the UK PM. Trump wants to be an absolute monarch or a despot.
Why aren't the people (other than the Atlantic editor) on the call in the police station or in jail?
I've given up my car and can't justify getting another. Walk, bus or deliveries (it's a bit steep to cycle).
I'm glad of my bus. It doesn't get me to work (unless I go to town or at least Tesco and out again) but does get me to town (actually quite frequently except evenings and Sundays).
Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
If it passes, at least one state does not have the high reported approval rate for Trump. Hopefully the congestion charge can stay.
What has happened to your country? Worse, why is there such a high approval rate for Trump?
I think they are intent on appearing "neutral".
TBH the study really shows academia is too solicitous of conservative propaganda. The liberal views are beliefs / opinions; the conservative "belief" of "widespread voter fraud" is objectively false, yet 47.6% of academics would permit that delusion / lie to be taught to undergraduates.
Only in the form of multivitamins AFAICT.
Heck, it was *before* Musk became co-President!
I thought hypervitaminosis A mostly applied to eating polar bear liver? Obviously no should eat bleach, and ivermectin has limited use bnf.nice.org.uk/drugs/iverme...
Are they saints? Have none of them ever committed common assault?
Worse is that this has generally boosted vaccine scepticism. Which persists.
In any other country, he'd be under arrest.
Did any of it fall off?
For clarity, these are the British Library and the British Museum.
The law says that this is unlawful (pursuant to the Equality Act 2010). So UK companies and government departments will naturally not be complying with Trump's nonsense.
This seems illegal.
I hope British (and other) universities can fill in the gap!
Does the US want the UK's and France's missiles actually pointed at the US?
Nah. Just Andrew Wakefield. He started this nonsense, and was struck off.
Unlike England, the USA is explicitly an areligious country. Not that anyone pays attention to the Church of England or the Church in Wales.
And to think I thought Hunter Biden's pardon should be cancelled!