Recent content by Revilo

This is misleading. The MP, Christopher Chope, blocked the passage of the law in objection to parliamentary procedure rather than to the bill itself. He stated that he would "wholeheartedly" support a government bill that outlawed upskirting.

It is officially staffed during the afternoons though (presumably related to the MOD establishment next door). So it can’t really be counted as an unstaffed station. Though it does get marginal. For example Bescot Stadium is only manned for a few hours on three days a week.

Christianity is a moderate religion and the King is head of the Church of England. Neither are true of Islam.

it’s bad enough having DfT micro managing the trains, can’t say I’m keen for the state to interfere further in buses n Wales. The nine most frightening words are ‘Im from the Government and I’m here to help’.

I think he’s moved to Altnabreac!

You can definitely still upgrade to Weekend First on GWR, by taking a seat and paying when asked: https://www.gwr.com/your-tickets/ways-to-save/weekend-upgrades. I went all the way from Weston-super-Mare to Paddington without being asked for the upgrade fare, but it meant I couldn’t then use...

This means that they really are buggered when they lose or have stolen their phone, or it runs out of battery, or they have no signal. I use my card or phone for 95% of transactions but would never want to be without cash. Anecdotally there has been a small increase in cash transactions, as some...

But London and the UK has been formed by many different movements and people of all types. What makes these particular groups or movements - most relatively recent in historic terms - deserving of a line naming and not others? Why not stick to non-exclusive names such as geographical features...

The monarchal names are not political, the monarch represents the nation and its history so are as inclusive as possible. In contrast the names now proposed are exclusive. The woke left sees everything through identity labels and categories, thus being exclusive. If only the lines has been...

They may be shown as request stops in the diagram but in the WMT public timetable online (No 9) there’s no symbol or letter denoting request stops and the WMT trains are just shown as normal stops. So how are the public to know?

I don’t think this is true any longer, both Claverdon and Bearley are no longer shown as request stops in the current timetable for the WMR services.

If we’re talking speed limits on roads, parish councils have an input so they can be quite subjective and based on local politics.

‘Years of underfunding’ caused by Gordon Brown’s mishandling of the economy which forced the Conservative Lib Dem coalition to have to implement austerity.

Is this not in itself a trip safety hazard? So that something designed to improve the safety for the visually impaired actually risks everyone (including the visually impaired). Plus the cost of its installation might have been more usefully spent on something better.

And grammatically it should be ‘fewer’ rather than ‘less’ because carriages are a countable noun.