I wish we replaced our posters with a "thank you for buying your ticket - it helps fund x y z. Not got one? Please speak to a member of Train Crew to get one" Then the smaller terms of penalties etc. Be welcoming, not punitive. Change rules so people approaching staff arent penalised too.

I hate these barriers with an absolute passion. You're meant to make the railway inviting to use. The amount who jump over are minimal. If you really care about evasion, staff your trains. They know they'll never get checked on board hence the issue. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/rai...

Greenhouse gas emissions from transport stats out today. We really should be talking a lot more about the need for action on transport emissions. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

NEW VLOG! We've made a few vlogs recently but this one is an absolute banger - we visited Toverland during their 25 year event and stayed overnight! How did it go? Well you can find out now: youtu.be/m5_-GCS7EZU

Farage announced the by-election within an hour of the deadline he was given by the Guardian for responding to the story

I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.

The teenage millionaire hacker from Tower Hamlets who took down TfL from his family’s flat - then was undone when he got hungry and bought a takeaway gift card. www.londoncentric.media/p/thalha-jub...

SNCF showing up themselves again. Sent an email saying people are using their brand for phishing and to be careful And then leads to show multiple different email addresses of slightly different varieties to show which ones are legit. Well, you're creating your own problem here too...

FIFA have confirmed Balogun’s suspension has been lifted and he *will* be allowed to stand in the Clacton by election

Has any other politician ever called a by-election on an explicitly anti-transparency, pro-sleaze ticket before?

Saying the quiet part out loud here aren't we Nige?

How much public money is he wasting by doing this? A lot, i imagine. More than any of his reform councils are saving.

I feel sorry for the future CEO of GBR - there are crucial decisions already being made that will make a fundamental difference to their chances of success. One of the most important decisions already being made (or not being made!) is brand strategy. This is why it's so crucial.

The facade is cracking

Turns out writing down all your crimes is a bad idea in the long run.

Do people in Austria actually know itv?!

On the general nonsensicalism of branding GBR-liveried trains with ex-TOC identifiers (GBR Southern / GBR South Western with presumably more to come), Thomas Ableman's recent article on the subject is well worth a read. www.freewheeling.info/blog/gbr-nee...

People in the quotes taking this tiny whimsical thing way too seriously.

Trump is watching the Fox News feed of himself watching Fox News

I'm old enough to remember when Brexiters claimed that leaving the EU was necessary to stop this happening under the (then under negotation, later abandoned) TTIP. news.sky.com/story/uk-us-...

The Campaign to Electrify Britain’s railway is back on. We’ve launched our new analysis of the diesel premium British passenger operators have paid and will pay, hitting passengers and the public purse as we renationalise.

Leeds. Changed trains, ate in the spoons and the KFC at the station, never explored.

I'll say it's swift, I didn't even know they were dating.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist / thank God! / the British journalist. / But, seeing what / the man will do / unbribed, there's no occasion to.

● Farage received £91,200 from a gold bullion company for four hours of work in January 2025. ● That's just £146 less than his MP salary for a whole year. ● And people wonder why he's never in Clacton. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Eurostar having a tough time of it recently (not helped by them being shit with communicating). Went by ferry last night as they cancelled the last Brussels/Amsterdam. I hate when they do that - run it to Brussels and then deal with the balancing move after - thats what your standbys are for!

Weird how the right both believe Thatcher's council house sale is the best policy in history and that anyone who benefitted from it is bad and wrong.

I think the passport system has gone down. Absolutely nothing moving at Brussels. No announcements or anything to tell anyone anything though lol

Eurostar doing yet another fantastic job at passenger info. If your train is gonna be late.. Update your app. Not difficult. Station screens all show on time and staff are saying "come back in about an hour" which helps noone. If you updated the app, then we would happily stay away from station.

We lost so much when we turned our streets over to cars. But we can take them back.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Hard to overstate just how much of the Brexit campaign was based on lies. Looking back it’s a sad case study of a country voting to immiserate itself due to the mendacity of right-wing politicians and tabloids. But it’s almost never framed that way in UK media. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Ugly bugglies

10 years after Brexit, Farage is richer... Are you? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0vx2edk0vo

“Your wages will rise... weekly food shops will get cheaper… You and your family will benefit from a resurgent economy... Politicians both local and national will become more accountable..." A quick reminder of how Brexit was sold to us ten years ago today

He probably will do a podcast. Yea.

Sort of mind-boggling how complicated recovering from the Bedford train crash is – before they can get the trains out, they need to construct a temporary concrete road so they can drive in a massive crane.

Say what you like about David Cameron. He campaigned on the slogan "Broken Britain" and by the time his party left office they'd delivered one.

Our society has spent the entirety of teenagers' lives systematically destroying every alternative to online interaction, from youth-clubs to broadcast TV, and now wants to cut off their access to the one thing that was sold as replacing it all.

whenever anyone I know admits to using ChatGPT this appears above my head

Seeing the Peter Serafinowicz Harry Potter announcement just made me think, once again, about this excellent James Acaster bit from Off Menu.

It is the official stance of the UK government that you're mature enough at 16 to vote in general elections, but not mature enough to go on YouTube after dark.

Banning children from social media?

There’s a bunch of kids hanging around by my laptop asking if I’ll go into the internet for them to cyberbully someone and get them a 2lt bottle of Diamond White.

The more I think about the curfew the dumber it seems. I mean seriously, a 17 year old won't be able look up a guitar tutorial video at 8.31pm?

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i assume banning kids from social media will be accompanied by a huge investment in teen-friendly communtiy spaces (like youth clubs) and social activities? No? Huh.