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The Broken Society And Some Wobbling Allegiances

September 25th, 2008 No Comments

The Mirror reports that, despite his silly apology for that article, Boris still isn’t sold on the “broken society” claims.
David Cameron, of course, has been their most forthright proponent, and has spoken, vomit-inducingly, of “anarchy in the UK“. He may be interested to know, then, that…
“This is a very, very safe city. There is a [...]

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Tube Aircon - Out Of The Dark, Into The Light

September 25th, 2008 6 Comments

Today’s ‘new Tube train’ press is of course nothing of the sort - these are the trains specified and ordered back in 2006 and not yet anywhere near service.  They’re also not ‘Tube’ trains per se, they’re sub-surface stock built to normal mainline size.  Given that, it would actually be rather astonishing if they didn’t [...]

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News Round-up

September 25th, 2008 6 Comments

Things are moving at a fast pace in Boris world, with the recent stumbles over airport policy being followed by further departures from the administration, although at least in this case it’s not people whom Boris only recently appointed.  That’s not necessarily a good thing - as a Captain the time to worry is not [...]

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