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š¶ So please stop chicaning, donāt lap me ācos it hurts š¶
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I'll take a huff on the copium if you've got any spare. #choochoo
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Trains on the proposed HS3/NPR route would realistically have to go through Victoria.
So itās either pumping more traffic through platforms 13/14 and the Ordsal Chord/a tunnel or people having to get across the city on the tram.
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I understand from an engineering perspective.
Politically I think the project goes a lot smoother if while the Tories are in power the building is done in many Labour constituencies and then vice versa.
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In my experience, the ECML trains are much more comfortable than the WCML ones.
Including the new Azuma.
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We keep going round in circles.
HS2 was designed to run from Manchester and Leeds to London via Birmingham. Nobody would have signed off on just Euston to Curzon Street.
Saying "HS2 is crap because it now won't go past Birmingham" is not an argument against HS2 it's an argument to complete it.
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It's failed because the project was abysmally managed, not because the scope was wrong.
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Well, quite. For me, the train should stop at Carlisle, but if not stopping at Carlisle makes it more likely we can get people on trains and off planes, that's something to strongly consider and doesn't make people arguing for it "a speed freak".
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Also not stop at Carlisle?
Weren't trains supposed to set off from Edinburgh/Glasgow. Go down the existing WCML and then carry onto the HS2 line at Crewe?
Why on earth would they suddenly stop calling at Carlise?
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Ah but have you considered HS2 wouldn't stop at his house?
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And there doesn't seem to be any sign they are going to be uncaptured any time soon.
What Trump is doing, IMO, is turning grievances between "town and country" into government policy and actively seeking to "punish" cities.
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I'm not sure how the US will continue as a country in the long term. There just seem to be irreconcilable differences in values between blue and red states.
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This government is willing to do unpopular things to save a few hundred million
Yet restoring fuel duty to pre-2022 levels would save billions. Ministers have not been thanked for keeping petrol prices low ā they may as well be brave and raise them again
www.thetimes.com/article/18cd...
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I've been loving all the stuff I've seen from the Expedition 33 crowd.
They seem to be having a great time.
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It is very very funny that one of the few genuine ways we have diverged from EU law since Brexit is VAT on private schools.
Karmic punishment for Telegraph readers.
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I thought it was a real shame Louise Haigh got the boot for, imo, something pretty minor.
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Yeah it's the combination of experience and a lack of ambition for higher office.
But I suspect the second part is the most important bit. Getting ministers who are passionate about their brief vs wanting to be PM one day.
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Inquisition was my favourite gameplay-wise too. Really nice blend of action and tactics. I was hoping they would build on that.
Reading the article you can see how it failed to come together.
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I wonder how you get more ministers like this.
Itās decidedly not a good thing that certain briefs in government are seen as stepping stones to ābetterā things vs important jobs that need doing well.
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Ah it is and it isn't.
Story wise I think it definitely is. There's some really good stuff involving Solas, the ancient elves and the world before the Veil etc.
Gameplay wise, no. It's far too simplistic.
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This is where I settled on it. I enjoyed my time with it and I thought the main story was actually really good but the "style" both art and dialogue, really grated on me. Just a total departure from previous games.
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Well they in theory had 4-5 years in opposition.
I think a change of government in the UK is quite clunky. There isnāt the transition period that you get in say the US.
One day a raft of new ministers come in who, for the most part, are brand new to government.
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Iād imagine itās as simple as transitioning into government is hard. Especially when everything is, to use a technical term, completely fucked.
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It will in the sense that everyone knows if they kick up a big enough stink the government will cave.
It wonāt move the dial in the polls though.
Just a colossal blunder from start to finish.
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It will never happen, but I would love for Labour to make the simple case that "Taxes are good, actually".
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There are precisely zero people in the world who have changed travel plans based on whether or not the destination had a tourism tax.
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Very much a case of not checking the T&Cs before making the wish.