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Trainsplit have agreed to refund the cost of the ticket I had to purchase from Liverpool Street to Stratford as a goodwill gesture. Thanks for the suggestion.

I bought a return ticket from Stowmarket to London Liverpool Street. However, even though on the email it says from Liverpool Street to Stowmarket changing at Stratford for the return, on the eticket it only says from Stratford to Stowmarket. When I asked at the ticket office they said I had to...

And all the chemicals, additives, and processed sugars in the majority of food

What are your views on the planned VED introduction on electric cars in 2025? Because the majority of electric cars cost over £40k when new, under current legislation they would also be liable for the extra VED surcharge. Although I appreciate that eventually VED will need to be charged on...

Is it true that there is an increased risk of cancer when living near pylons?

I believe he was talking about the fens and South Lincolnshire. Not really indicative of the scenery of East Anglia as a whole.

I guess the question may be how would someone at the time have discerned which lines may have been viable for future reopenings and which lines would never reopen? How would they have known at the time where future house building trends would develop?

A lot of trains don't stop at Stowmarket. There are 2 trains every hour from London to Norwich and only one of those trains stops at Stowmarket. Plus a lot of freight trains pass through Stowmarket. I guess they don't discern between the trains stopping and not stopping. 1709027317 Why do some...

At Stowmarket, I've noticed they sometimes put the barriers down up to 7 minutes before the train is due.

Is this not a little self absorbed view from people? I'm alright because I got to purchase a council house, but screw all the people who went through untold amounts of suffering because of some of Thatcher's policies?

How does it cost £6.3 million to name 6 railway lines?

Was it true that coal was imported from abroad to allow the mines to be closed out of spite against the unions?

I thought what stopped Kinnock was the papers doing a number on him with the falling over on the beach saga. Blair realised that the only way to win an election was to get the media onside. It was why Blair got into bed with Murdock, so to speak. We live in a world where knowing how to play...

I don't know. Whilst I agree that Blair's government may have not been true Labour and they brought in several things I did not agree with, they certainly did a hell of a lot more for mental health and social support. I remember there used to be loads of mental health and social support groups...

I looked up Thatcher's relationsip with Pinochet. In an interview Thatcher thanked Pinochet for supporting the UK in the Falklands and credited him with bringing democray to chile. She appears to have had a strange concept of democracy.

The Queen dined and held parties with the Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, and Robert Mugabe. A large proportion of the population still revere the Queen. Churchill once wrote in a letter; “Those who have met Herr Hitler face to face,” […], “have found a highly...

Wasn't the whole claim to the Falklands and the reason Argentina want the Island so much to do with oil?

I heard that Argentina never intended to go to war and their intention was to force Britain to the negotiating table. That was why they sent in mainly 18 year old conscripts. I agree. I feel it is unfair to start comparing Thatcher to dictators who oversaw and ordered the deaths of hundreds...

I'm not saying Thatcher's governement are solely responsable for the mess society is finding itself in. And Thatcher is just a product of a Western ethos that has gone back generations of the self above all else. Labour have not exactly covered themselves in glory either. Yes they provide...

I do agree that personal responsibility is vitally important, not only for looking after our physical health, but our mental well-being as well, and perhaps as a society we do expect others to pick up the pieces too much. But then isn't there also a collective responsibility to to look after...