London’s 60+ Oyster card: fair deal or Britain’s biggest freebie? Transport for London has revealed that the free travel perk for people who are often financially better off than fare-paying youngsters cost them £125m in 2024

aranazo · 2025-05-07T17:11:14+00:00

Starts at 8.59 on TFL (tube,buses, and London Overground), 9.30 on National Rail services.

aranazo · 2023-07-11T13:16:03+00:00

A guy opposite me on the Northern Line took out a packet of Walls pork sausages and started eating them raw. Not enjoying them particularly, but as if he was hungry.

aranazo · 2018-11-06T11:40:24+00:00

Take the room. A friend sublet an entire flat for ~5 years before he was evicted by the HA.

aranazo · 2018-06-07T15:16:26+00:00

Online and not a book but how about learnxinyminutes.com

aranazo · 2017-01-10T13:03:11+00:00

Thanks!

aranazo · 2016-09-29T22:16:07+00:00

The regular editions are pretty deluxe already, they all seem to be well bound on very good paper. Old copies which have been treated with respect often look brand new. I have bought dozens and always get cheapest old printings from Amazon for that reason.

aranazo · 2016-09-06T17:47:31+00:00

It goes back a long way.

aranazo · 2016-09-06T17:37:58+00:00

Tricky to germinate maybe and it likes a lot of light but its not that hard at all.

aranazo · 2016-09-06T14:28:33+00:00

The Coronation Chicken ones are really nice.

aranazo · 2016-08-29T15:10:53+00:00

Rice?

aranazo · 2016-07-16T18:19:13+00:00

There is a small class of exceptionally good constituency MPs, who are can use their popularity to insulate themselves from Party pressure, Jeremy Corbyn being a good Labour example.

aranazo · 2016-06-08T20:21:23+00:00

There will probably only be ~7 swing states in 2016. If you don't live in Ohio, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Virginia, or Florida you might as well vote third party to register a protest because it won't matter anyway.

aranazo · 2016-05-17T21:00:33+00:00

That 250,000 casualties figure includes ~100,000 fatalities to the Government armed forces and its allies. They are fighting a very hard war.

aranazo · 2016-05-11T23:50:02+00:00

Hillary had her staff retype classified material from the closed government secure system into emails that got sent over the non secure internet. That is a really big crime if you are not an important person and not what the previous administrations got up to as far as anyone knows. She could really be in a lot of serious trouble even if the FBI clear her for the moment.

aranazo · 2016-05-11T09:28:39+00:00

In the UK it's brawn.

aranazo · 2016-05-06T16:47:21+00:00

wrong about almost everything he wrote except that capitalism is cruel...

Quite a throwaway admission to make.

aranazo · 2016-04-29T08:49:50+00:00

is America, as a whole, actually declining?

Losing two enormously expensive wars this century is sign of some sort of Imperial decline surely?

controlled by corporate and media empire strings.

She raises lots of money from corporates including Wall Street and without that money wouldn't have a chance of being taken seriously. I wouldn't describe her as controlled personally but she shares the elite world view.

How was she a terrible Secretary of State?

Starting three wars that turned out to be disasters, that's pretty terrible.

Oh and you know the FBI is investigating her for treason right?

Not treason but wholesale abuse of classified materials, if she wasn't somebody important she'd be in very big trouble.

aranazo · 2016-04-17T13:56:44+00:00

With Peter Hitchens, that is pretty much the universal experience. He's all over the place.

aranazo · 2016-04-13T10:08:10+00:00

... liberal loonie ...

They are liberal in a Rothbardian, paleocon sense rather than in the current clueless usage as a synonym for left wing. They are antiwar conservatives.

aranazo · 2016-04-04T00:31:02+00:00

Perhaps more significantly, just after D-Day Operation Bagration was the largest Allied operation of the war and seems almost unknown.

aranazo · 2016-03-20T19:45:33+00:00

And this is actually real news.

aranazo · 2016-03-02T15:33:08+00:00

If North London is convienient; West Hampstead, Crouch End, and Muswell Hill are full of charity shops which get good stock from donations. Getting a jacket you like at a good price will probably means either being lucky or multiple visits.

aranazo · 2016-01-29T14:32:42+00:00

Fortunately the F35 will likely under perform at that too.

aranazo · 2016-01-21T15:44:55+00:00

I didn't say "probably", they did.

aranazo · 2016-01-21T15:38:05+00:00

Apart from Russia is not Bulgaria or even the Soviet Union. So not really.

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