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  1. DynamicSpirit

    Keir Starmer and the Labour Party

    I'm pretty sure the 'closest ever' is just trying to motivate his supporters plus trying to scare LibDem/Green voters unto flipping to Labour. It's the same kind of stuff as how basically every general election is 'The most important election in modern times' or something similar. Despite the...
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    Brexit matters

    That doesn't guarantee that economies of scale will be sufficient to outweigh lack of competition. Remember too, that economists also recognise that there are diseconomies of scale. I was referring more to, if there is some reason why an individual country is too small to benefit from...
  3. DynamicSpirit

    Brexit matters

    Why would the EU adapt faster? Usual life experience is typically that, the bigger the system/organisation/etc. you're dealing with, the slower it takes to adapt and make changes. That logic fails for two reasons. Firstly, there's no way to tell if you have got the best system if you don't...
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    PM2.5 is lower than outside air in newer trains

    I wonder if simply being underground is one of the main factors, considering the tendency of particulates to sink. Add to that being in a tunnel, so that any particulates from trains/people are more likely to hang around. The hypothesis that some is leakage from adjacent tube platforms could be...
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    Brexit matters

    That's true - with the proviso that it's a quirk of geography as much as history, with most of the UK being surrounded by sea. But it's also true that that that quirk of history/geography means that most of the UK has become culturally somewhat homogenous - with most of the UK now having a long...
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    PM2.5 is lower than outside air in newer trains

    I'd be interested to know how that compares with some of the other underground lines. Certainly, at Tottenham Court Road, interchanging between Elizabeth line and the Northern line, I can practically smell the air becoming dirtier as you get nearer the Northern line platforms, so my guess is...
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    Brexit matters

    Agreed, that would also work as an analogy. A very similar example would be something like the way the railway TOCs use railcards as a way to offer lower fares to some people (students for example) than they offer to other people - and the basic underlying rationale is that they are trying, as...
  8. DynamicSpirit

    Brexit matters

    Why is it morally wrong to pay different people different amounts for the same thing? Today I bought a Muller Yoghurt from Sainsburys. I'm pretty certain that if I'd gone to ASDA, I could have bought the exact same thing and paid a different price. Is it morally wrong for me to pay one...
  9. DynamicSpirit

    Brexit matters

    The idea that we now have less power is one of those things that Remainers love to proclaim, but in reality it's not at all obvious whether it's true. In the EU, there were laws that applied to the whole EU. We had something like 3% of the say over those laws, balanced out by those laws applying...
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    Supermarkets discussion

    Interesting. The last couple of companies I worked for tended to view Friday nights/Saturday mornings as the best time to do software updates, on the basis that if something went wrong, you had the whole weekend to fix it. But that logic doesn't really work if you're a supermarket and your...
  11. DynamicSpirit

    Poulton-le-Fylde to Liverpool

    Oh thanks @trainJam, yeah, my mistake - I'd somehow missed that ticket when I looked up the fares on brfares.com.
  12. DynamicSpirit

    Poulton-le-Fylde to Liverpool

    I'm fielding a query from a friend who wants to know what ticket to buy to get from Poulton-le-Fylde to Liverpool Lime Street, returning a couple of weeks later. It looks like the only returns offered on that route are day returns, so it would be two off-peak singles @ £20.20 each. However, I...
  13. DynamicSpirit

    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    A better example might be, someone with left-wing views saying that looking at Nigel Farage made you want to hate all white men, and Nigel Farage should be shot. I'm pretty sure that, as a white man, I would have no trouble distinguishing that the person saying that was probably attacking Nigel...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Agreed. I imagine in reality what is happening is: The Tories want as much money as they can have to fight the next election with - therefore they won't give it back if they possibly can avoid it. The other parties want the Tories to have as little money as possible to fight the election with -...
  15. DynamicSpirit

    Supermarkets discussion

    So that's £5 for what's basically a small glass that has some writing on it :D
  16. DynamicSpirit

    Waterloo station masterplan

    Agreed. Fundamentally we're stuck with a station that - with the benefit of 155 years of hindsight - was arguably built in the wrong place, and we have to do the best we can with that. I think pragmatically, the best solution would be to improve the connection to Waterloo (Main) with a proper...
  17. DynamicSpirit

    Brexit matters

    Sure. And I do think we need better protection around zero hours contracts. Fundamentally, I would think the way it ought to work is this: The agency should decide whether it wants the people it uses to be direct employees (in which case it's up to the agency to pay them a regular salary...
  18. DynamicSpirit

    Brexit matters

    I'm pretty sure I understand that perfectly. But I don't think that's necessarily wrong in the way you are assuming (although I can see why people might feel it's unfair): No-one has a God-given right to be paid £X/hour just because someone else is paid that amount. If I'm unhappy with my...
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    Waterloo station masterplan

    I agree that a travelator wouldn't help that much (although they have one connecting the Jubilee and Bakerloo/Northern lines) in the underground station, and I doubt that saves any more time than that. But it would help a bit. Looking on Google maps, it looks to me like the distance from the...
  20. DynamicSpirit

    Brexit matters

    I also find that somewhat puzzling - particularly in the light that pretty much every office-based company I've ever worked for negotiated pay for each employee individually, which means people rarely knew what anyone else (other than their own subordinates) were earning. That would seem to...

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