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this is why we have universal vaccination; to protect children before they can get their own shot

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.

Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

It is, but it’s not that good. The equivalent would be getting out of your seat as the train passes Twyford on its way to Paddington!

Ok people. What’s the deal with standing up ready to get off the Eurostar at St Pancras, when the train only left the Channel tunnel five minutes earlier?

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration.

He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment.

He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.

Yeah, the Greens are one of those parties where I sometimes go 'I'd take you more seriously if you told me something you'd do that I don't like, because politics in practice always involves some compromises,' and now I'm going Oh God Not Like That.

The memory of my daughter Amy Houston has been dishonoured | Paul Houston Paul Houston: My daughter's death was used to undermine the Human Rights Act. I now see how wrong that was

Zia Yusuf used the tragic death of Amy Houston in his speech today.

Her dad explicitly asked politicians not to do this in 2013.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Father Bloopy was better

Sounds very reminiscent of Ceaușescu’s Romania. Disturbing.

It *literally* does.

Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.

Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.

Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

Just going to leave this here

I was born and raised in Gorton and Denton, and I absolutely guarantee you Reform won't put it first.

They won't even put Britain first.

They'll put Russia first. We LITERALLY jailed one of them for doing that.

I was going to suggest they’d taken Bowel Prep and thus had nothing left to pass.

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

I didn’t have high hopes based on the fact that he baptised Russell Brand.

Aren’t you only supposed to baptise repenters, rather than someone pleading not guilty?

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.

Trump avoided military service 5 times.

How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

Replace ABC Corp with Network Rail and this would describe several of my former colleagues.

The worst bit is some of them do have names. People (esp enthusiasts) talk about the Astoria Line or the Flushing Line, and I haven’t a clue about what they’re referring to until someone say the N/W or the 7.

In all the time I’ve spent here and in the other place, I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to refer someone to Arkell v. Pressdram.

Something about the people using the Meta equivalent that makes me want to do it regularly.

For balance, as I do spend a lot of time poo-pooing suggestions that this or that thing is meant as a Nazi allusion, I should point out here that I absolutely believe that this logo is meant as a Nazi allusion, it’s an open and shut case.

There was a follow-up report apparently - The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes. it didn't get progressed far.

And of course, lest we forget the Serpell report...

I’m down with the kids, innit.

I went to NRW for a few days between Christmas and New Year. Every train I was on was late, other than the S11 from Düsseldorf Airport to Düsseldorf Hbf.

One of the most maddening things about our current government is the way that they seem to think that if you find the right ambiguity of framing, they can continue to have it both ways and be everyone’s friend indefinitely.

2. By all means offer someone the option to fly earlier, but it does help if you send them the email with that offer in good time for them to get to the airport… not two minutes after the earlier flight leaves.

So I know the enshittification of British Airways is well known but a few tips for them if they want to improve:

1. Cancelling a flight and rebooking on the next available flight should not mean being rebooked on the one three hours before your cancelled flight.

if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."

We had one module (can’t remember which one) where I’d never done the module before and I just went straight for the test and passed.

Most of this stuff isn’t difficult and shouldn’t be difficult, but they make it out to be such a big deal.

Oh no. This was the level of question after you’d sat the four hour, in-person, course.

(And before you got to go out the back and actually play with fire extinguishers.)