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Ukraine are claiming that 18 missiles were launched at Kyiv last night and all 18 were shot down. There’s nothing particularly unusual about that in itself but they also claim 6 of them were Russias new hypersonic Khinzal missiles. If that is true, they aren't going to sell many of them, they were supposed to be impossible to shoot down. If Ukraine shot down all 6 of them fired as they claim then the Patriot system can already deal with them

So if you choose to live there you don’t hear the noise?

Beaching was a long time ago now. Very few lines have closed since the 70s Some are still in the 60s though (Southport to Wigan, I'm looking at you with your semaphore signals, passing loops at stations and manual level crossings

Well yes and no. If they can prove collusion between supermarkets to say, artificially keep the price of fuel high then that would be considered to operating as a cartel and that is illegal. But more generally, yep, it’s just a toothless sop to make it look like they are doing something. They won’t find anything

Some people didn’t believe the today version of that, so someone got hold of a video driving down the whole road. They’ve done a great job of rebuilding

That clip isn’t from the live broadcast I don’t think, it’s from a later version at least, if not a news clip

That was called headers and volleys

I believe it is currently being called the Nat-C conference But the real answer is, yes possibly but there is another right wing conservative conference going on right now too

Tell you what Sue Ellen, go pick the f***ing fruit yourself, see how long you last

You can't possibly want me to agree with a Tory twice in one day But.... form the same nut house, this time One Term MP Miriam Cates... The connection made in that third paragraph is wild but Cultural marxism is systematically destroying our childrens souls should be an album title for a Death Metal band

JRM is speaking at the National Loonies conference, why does he want a second one so soon after the first|?

Some more lines that are currently in progress as reopening or being built; The Barrow Hill Line between Sheffield and Chesterfield The Ivanhoe Line between Leicester and Burton on Trent The Fleetwood Line The Mid-Cornwall Metro

Neither of which are gerrymandering anyway, gerrymandering relates to the manipulation of election boundaries and nothing else. He's a prick and as usual uses words that he doesn't know the meaning of

This is already happening under a Tory Government so why not The Dartmoor line reopened after 50 years. Part of the Waverley Line reopened with more being proposed Aberdare Line looking like it may eventually reopen up to Hirwaun on the old Vale of Neath line (or the Tower Colliery line) Plenty more besides, strangely happening more in devolved Wales and Scotland but there are moves afoot in England too. EDIT: I completely East West Rail that connects or will connect Oxford to Cambridge And of course the ELizabeth Line has recently opened

That isn't strictly true. Some of Japan Railways is privatised, some of it, including all freight, isn't. There are 6 JR passenger companies, 4 are privatised, 2 aren't The Infrastructure is in Public hands and before it was floated the government wiped out a shit load of debt They are also currently going through a sort of Beeching era and closing unprofitable lines. The way Japanese railways are organised is really strange as some of it is like what happened in the WIld West of America, there are smaller companies that are essentially real estate firms too and they literally develop new rail connected communities. It's not a path anyone could follow in another country.

You've been on the shandy again, picking a fight with the whole of Brum on a Villa Forum

It's fairly hot off the press. He only said it today at his Pro-Boris sorry National Conservatism Conference

First session from 1988. Voted one of the best Peel Sessions of the year

Fairly sure they supported them at some point, also think Benny profane may have played on the same bill somewhere, possibly one of those lump a load of bands together on one bill gigs at DIngwalls maybe

Shit, I feel dirty that JRM just agreed with me

Its the battle of which drivers limiter is the least accurate, utter f***wittery

Tories being Tories. (well on paper it was Lloyd Georges Lib / Con coalition in 1921 but it was very Tory driven) There are very few rail networks in the world that are in private hands and make money. They initially de-nationalised in 1921 because they were handing things back to their owners after WW1 (yeah the coal mines went particularly well in that respect - handed back, wages cut, strike, coal rationing in next to no time) but even then they didn't do that, they formed the Big 4 with the railways, they were previously over 120 different companies. So even though they effectively created 4 big monopolies in private hands... it didn't work.

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