Recent content by al78

With England and Wales having just experienced the wettest consecutive 18 month period on record (since 1766), and with the weather this year continuing to sink to the level of poorness of a lot of things from government to public services to toxic public attitudes in the UK, people have every...

Two possibilities that come to mind: 1. System failures across all public services are heavily publicised in the media and people on a population scale are heavily influenced by the media. It is the same with media articles about the EU or immigration, they frequently contain nonsense but are...

I found this article about the UK railways which looks to be on a website that has articles/podcasts on economy related matters. Having read it it seems quite reasonable if a little like wishing on a star when he talks about what is to be done i.e. a complete system transition...

These things are not necessarily independent, even if surveys like that give the impression they are. Transport networks are the arteries of the economy, and poor transport infrastructure, be it creaking hardware that regularly falls over, or industrial action, stifles the utility of the...

Yes but Britain so we know that's what will happen.

The journey times in the table posted by zwk500 above coincide with a bank holiday and half term which is very likely a period where air fares are elevated, rail fares do not increase over a bank holiday weekend or school holidays in my experience. If they are including a taxi from airport to...

Agreed, the assertion that doctors and nurses aren't responsible for people's lives on a large scale sounded bizarre to me, and I also agree comparing totally different jobs is meaningless. The reason it is done is because the fallacy of relative privation is one of people's favourite logical...

Yes it is effectively an offset. With Good Energy they claim to supply the equivalent of what you consume to the grid in the form of renewables.

FTFY

Speaking purely logically, it makes no sense to only target bicycle panniers and ignore anything else which could easily house a bomb. If a terrorist wanted to use a bicycle to house a bomb they would be better packing the frame with explosives and using it as a pipe bomb. I suspect the reason...

Thanks, so like what I have experienced, an unreserved coach for those without reservations, in this specific case the only seating option available.

If bicycle panniers have to be unlocked so the insides are accessible to anyone in authority deciding they are a security threat, they are also accessible to opportunist thieves.

I don't, can you resolve the apparent contradiction for me please. Is it something like what they had on the Euston to Manchester services where there was a coach that was dedicated for passengers without reservations and on the rest of the train there was the option of reserving a seat?

If a train doesn't run and nobody is actually inconvenienced, did it ever exist?

I don't see how an Accumulated Cyclone Energy chart, which by my understanding of the term refers to wind and I have only heard it used for tropical cyclones, can be used to infer anything related to flooding. It is true that windstorms have shown no trend over many decades and have trended...