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He's being interviewed by Laura Kuennsberg on BBC TV 9.00 tomorrow, and I'd expect him to be asked some searching questions in return for his five minutes of fame.

Hot so much AI, I think it might be Goldwater of Texas come back to haunt us. A definite nut-job.

Let's not forget that WebberBus lost their Taunton Park and Ride contract from Somerset County Council in 2016 owing to 'missing and late' buses which precipitated their financial collapse two years later and First Somerset 'winning' that bus war. Now the First Goliath does what they usually do...

Does ibus make mention of Beckenham Junction on the 54? Rectory Road was my first married address, at a time when there were 54 'shorts' from the Croydon direction terminating at BJ, and so far as I know the terminus there has never been used again by the route. Maybe the 54 should double run to...

Elmers End wouldn't be considered a proper interchange in any other major Western country that runs trams imo, and that's not even looking at it from the point of view of disabled passengers. Russia and ex-Soviet republics, maybe!

The 54 would never have been put into place as a Woolwich to Elmers End route all those years ago, the latter being, with all due respects to its residents now or then, a nothing sort of place. People would have clamoured for the obvious extension to Croydon.

Thank you for being so kind! I don't think the 186 ever went east of Woolwich, General Gordon Place, with the 122/122A terminating at Woolwich, Earl of Chatham or Thomas Street. The 186 was very prone to disruption too, even though only one in three or four buses operated beyond Crystal Palace...

Amid all these County Championship centuries, record scores and so on, an interesting record that hardly got any attention happened in the recent match at Taunton, played with the Dukes ball as well. Joe Clarke, playing as wicketkeeper for Notts as well as no. 3 batter, made 213 not out in their...

Which was precisely why the Disability Living Allowance was created, giving some of the groups you mention and others beside more money to choose things that could bring a better quality to their life and perhaps maintain some independence thus, in the long run, possibly saving the state money...

Double decker on the 5A this afternoon, not that the extra capacity was needed!

I think the administrative enlargement of London in 1965 was the right thing. I went to work for the new London Borough of Bromley on leaving school in 1967, in the Libraries Department, and they were still engaged in the process of trying to make sense of how the previous library systems in...

I don't feel qualified to offer really up-to-date opinions, as I can no longer get to the city of my birth and first forty years, but I read very widely, look at videos etc and get 'gut' feelings about things, which doesn't make them right of course. :smile: On that basis, and given my S.E...

No, it doesn't. Having physical or mental illness may entitle you to claim Personal Independence Payment, and you may have a recognised disability as a part of that, but any necessary extra costs associated with that disability are no longer recognised as being the state's responsibility, as...

The Disability Living Allowance is only available for children, and has been since 2014. No other disability benefits have been available for new adult claimants since that time. Disability in itself no longer entitles an individual to any extra money from the state, a fact which many people are...

After my wife died I was entitled to receive as her widower most of the private pension she had built up. Like many such schemes, it was managed by Capita. The initial process of transferring it to me went well but then weeks went by. Telephone calls to Capita were answered by individuals...

That's very interesting. The 5 is a route (I'd say the route) crying out to have the now out of favour decades-long London practice of having scheduled 'short' journeys inserted into the timetable, preferably from each end of the route. It's a longer than usual route by present-day standards...

I suspect she wouldn't have got on any better than Theresa May did. Ronald Reagan was more her sort of man i.e. one she could get to do some of her bidding.

It would also mean single, rather than double, deckers on the Croydon to Sutton section. Where in Sutton would the two routes terminate?

Even if they did, they wouldn't come close to their 2010 result.

The 'support' we give now is minimal and skin deep. In terms of tanks, missiles, bullets etc this country has little of use that could be offered and we haven't increased the defence budget. Instead, we allow our arms manufacturers to continue exporting to Russia's neighbouring allies ever more...