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LTNs are an interesting example. They’re one of those things that are so divisive, they draw votes from people who are not otherwise into politics - people tend to vote in order to vote against something, not for something. Those who are against them will take any opportunity to lash out against...

Is it not possible that it will do the opposite, and make people see the EU as a petty xenophobic and protectionist bloc, moreso than the UK which has no such "I-can't-believe-it's-not-a-visa" controls on friendly countries and indeed lets a lot of lower-risk countries straight through its...

I don’t really understand the calls to give back the donation - I don’t see how keeping it proves they are obliged to him, and there’s no evidence that he wanted something specific in return for his donation as opposed to approving of and wishing to support Conservative ideals (whatever those...

It will either raise revenue, or reduce passenger loadings in peaks; both wins for TfL. By definition it cannot do neither.

There are lots of place names that have lost relevance from when they were originally named, so I don’t see it as a huge issue if Lioness becomes irrelevant someday. On the other hand, TfL have left the door wide open for wry jokes about “suffering on the suffragette line”.

There’s Ben Goldacre who appeared in a Geoff Marshall video on Finstock: Given the size of the forum, I expect at least one season of I’m A Celeb could be eked out of the membership list ;)

Aha, I was thinking of the wrong grave period. I was thinking they reduced the two weeks during which you can request to have your points actually credited to the previous year, but they’ve actually reduced the extra period your existing status is valid for :)

I am a little surprised that BA didn’t just extend everyone’s membership year to April, and accept that some people would get very lucky (and maybe be won over and seek to renew it!). It seems they’ve prioritised scrupulous fairness over simplicity. Am I misunderstanding this? If you want to...

I suspect the cop-out answer is “both”. Namely they should be widened on residential roads where extra caution is warranted (despite their proliferation it feels like only a minority have them), and rolled back on more major roads where 20mph feels extremely slow (if people learn to break the...

I generally agree that there isn’t a huge parallel, where someone has been caught by an inspector and cases are investigated individually. However, there is an increasing trend of TOCs and their agents looking for fraud in a far more automated way, e.g. bulk analysis of Trainline data performed...

I’m not sure how old you are :smile: but hence why I said an “excuse” not to have learned. A 60-70 year old today would have been 40-50 when modern computing and the Internet was clearly the way everything was moving, with likely impending decline and retirement of manual methods. Not learning...

One thought I had is that there are now very few people left alive who have a genuine excuse for being unable to use basic technology. Despite that, many people over 60 are almost proud of not understanding it.

I may be wrong, but I believe one out of the four pipes is still theoretically operational?

One curious thought I had a while back is that you can subtract your age from your year of birth to discover your backdated year. The gap between then and the current year obviously widens at twice the rate of normal time. I don’t feel remotely connected to the point in history I am passing through!

I’m not sure this has much to do with generational smoking bans. Children are already prohibited from purchasing cigarettes.

I’d be grateful if anyone could link to genuine proposals (with a pathway for it to actually happen) for existing cities to become genuine 15 minute cities where they are not already. This aspirational discussion is all very well, but on cursory searching, I can’t find any. As a specific...

My impression is that there are more conspiracy theorists talking about 15 minutes cities than there are genuine proposals to implement them. A quick search on social media bears this out. To the extent that there are plans to implement them, they tend to be woolly and not backed by the sort of...

A counterargument is that there are conservative voters - 20% of them, in fact - who disagree with the Tories’ stance on the conflict and wish for a full ceasefire. However, since they are being offered mostly the same policy they have no reason to switch. While not remotely the same issue, it...

I suspect that the parents this is aimed at do not have an open and respectful dialogue with their children…

The counterargument would be that 8% and 9% are each worryingly large raw numbers of people; those groups clearly hold strong, entrenched and extreme views in having no sympathy for the other country's citizens, depsite the obvious suffering of innocent citizens of both, and therefore such...