The objections were mainly by disability rights campaigners.

It’s not been abandoned.

The most complex and time-consuming engineering is required in London. That’s why it had to start there.

Important? It just seems like the same Grauniad comment guff to me. The Lede begins

If fares don’t fall

All ticket prices have been set by DfT since 2020. Fares will not fall, and we know this. The fully-nationalised ScotRail has raised prices faster than anyone else, in fact.

Between 2006 and 2022, an estimated 65% of train operating company profits were paid out in dividends to shareholders

But no mention that these profits accounted for 2% of the ticket price, giving the false impression that there are massive savings to be made.

Revenue that previously flowed to shareholders should fund service improvements – more staff, better cleaning and extended opening hours at stations.

Again, given how shoe-string the profits were, that’s asking a lot. It’s also inconsistent. Do they want the savings, or do they want the improvements?

ROSCOs are not going to be nationalised. That would cost astronomic numbers, and it is easier to filter them out as old rolling stock is replaced.

It’s incorrect to say they have 0 expertise. One of their main functions is to set and enforce content standards, and a lot of research is done connected to that.

The American public lost their minds at 2k casualties in 2001. I doubt they have the determination for a civil war.

Ironically, it was PornHub’s parent company that was set to run the UK age verification scheme.

It’s all about the cost savings (in the short term. I don’t know how long such trackwork would last)

Well yeah but they fucked up the moment they gave every cop a gun. That’s not a factor with the situations these vehicles will be used for. American policing is not comparable.

Ineffective? It’s there to block streets and deliver riot police to an area. Looks like it’ll tick both boxes.

Tangi was an interim measure that somehow lasted almost 40 years. It’s very much out of date however. The company behind the Pangolin went bust in 2020. In any case, Land Rover stopped making Defenders a decade ago, and only make luxury vehicles now.

Apple have always done what they wanted. In the Jobs era the biggest Apple Store in the world was on Regents Street in London, and Apple paid the local council vast fines each month because Jobs decided that the required illuminated fire exit signs would have ruined the carefully designed interior.

They’re famous for not using their tanks to kill people.

What a surprise.

Eink charge around $30 for their lowest-spec screen. Device builders have to price that in, along with the niche market, and the fact that those who want to use Eink are unlikely to be replacing it for several years.

Won’t someone think of the public employees of Ontario?

Was she also named after a chain of off-licences?

The hard part would be preventing Spain from using its veto. The customs border would be merely nearly impossible.

Well, if anyone would know, it’s you.

I presume therefore as such a passionate advocate for democracy that, if Scotland became independent, you would support a decennial referendum on joining the UK? Or is only the “right” result worthy of being deemed a democratic process?