In the last couple of weeks we have had the Secretary of State for Transport announce the possibility of re-opening a railway line to serve Northampton; and, simultaneously, the TOC that operates trains through that town being unable to run anything like the trains in the timetable, the initial inability to run weekend trains after tea-time having now spread to weekday morning peaks. But we've already been told that railway operations are nothing to do with the Secretary of State, so these two events are obviously totally unconnected.
The suggestion up thread that Daventry (D.C. population, 80,000) might deserve a railway station has been resolved by LNR reducing the weekday service to Long Buckby (the present railhead for Daventry).
As an avid radio 4 listener, I no longer have to wait until "Dead Ringers" with Alistair McGowan is broadcast for half an hour once a week; for satire, I just listen to 'Today' any day for 3 hours. I do wonder whether I've fallen through a space-time continuum to a world entirely composed of irony and satire; it certainly seems like it...