Graph of average annual fees for BA/BSc or equivalent courses in the OECD showing England as the most expensive and Nordics the least
Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana.
(PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)
I agree with the sentiment, but I doubt that the law provides any remedy.
Haircut like a bogbrush: only one use for Szijjarto.
Today we have published new analysis building on the Committee's advice on the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget.
Our conclusions about the cost of decarbonising the UK and impacts on energy security were tested against different scenarios ⬇️
Read the full report here: www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...
Tuesday 10th March 2026 Dear Lord Hendy, We write to express our shared concern about the removal of on-the-day refunds for walk-up rail tickets from 1st April, with exceptions for railway-caused disruption, and to ask you and your Department to reconsider. Removing the ability to obtain a refund from a walk-up ticket erodes one of the key advantages of these more expensive tickets, compared to cheaper and more restrictive advance purchase fares. This runs the risk of penalising individuals who buy their ticket in advance, in order to avoid last-minute panics on the day. Alongside this, the change is likely to have a significant impact on corporate bookings, which are rarely done on the day, and may be more prone to on-the-day cancellation of meetings due to changing business requirements. This change could also disproportionately affect elderly and vulnerable individuals, exemplified in a 2024 Department for Transport report: 'Ticket purchasing behaviour and preferences among rail passengers'. Crucially, respondents aged 66+ were more likely to purchase their tickets from a station ticket office (48%, compared with 12% for under 26, 19% for 26-45, and 30% for 46-65), which may imply less confidence with
Letter to the House of Commons, specifically citing concerns about increased complexity, disproportionate impact on vulnerable users, and lack of consultation, with five specific questions posed: 1. An annual fraud saving of £40 million has been stated as the reason for this change. This represents 0.35% of 2025's total ticket revenue of £11.5 billion. Do you believe the inconvenience resulting from these fare conditions changes is proportionate in this context? And could you kindly provide the data source and methodology for calculating this figure? 2. What assessment has been made of the impact on revenue from people being deterred from rail travel because of the increased complexity this brings, and will the government publish any such assessment? 3. What alternatives were considered? For example, addressing the inconsistent on-board checking of tickets by railway staff, or strengthening the technology and processes for digital tickets to prevent refunds once tickets have been activated? 4. Given this erosion of consumer rights, will you take this opportunity to state that media reports of plans to reduce Delay Repay compensation eligibility from 15 minutes to 30 minutes are incorrect? 5. Finally, we would like to ask who was consulted before making this decision to change the terms and conditions of these rail tickets? For your information, we will be publishing this letter.
Official letter signed by Olly Glover MP, Liberal Democrat House of Commons Transport Spokesperson and Baroness Pidgeon MBE, Liberal Democrat House of Lords Transport Spokesperson.
Alongside Baroness Pidgeon, my counterpart in the Lords, I have written to the Rail Minister, outlining our concerns about changes to rail ticket terms and conditions from 1st April, which ban refunds on walk-up tickets on the day of travel, except in circumstances of disruption.
Typical marketing moron.
"optimistdaily.com" Clearly a well-researched and sourced belief you have there.
And anyway, this is for pipeline purposes. Extreme engineering is possible for pipelines. Try sticking this in a domestic dwelling or an automobile and you don't have the economics for such extreme engineering. Industrial uses only, such as metallurgy.
As I said, hydrocarbon operators trying to sell their infrastructure. And the problems of pressurisation ("three times as high") are stated black and white.
Btw, you have merely scanned an index, you haven't given a reference that can be verified. And nothing I can see there mentions plastics for hydrogen transportation.
Plastic is useless for the construction of pressure vessels. Thus useless for the transportation of the large quantities needed for general use.
None of those has been built, nor is their actual planning for any of it. Not a Euro cent has been allocated for that.
Your answer tells me you haven't a clue concerning atmospheric physics or climate change.
Burning hydrogen as a solution to climate change is nuts, as it creates water vapour.
Hydrogen notoriously escapes with extraordinary ease due to its molecular size from a vast number of materials making containment a difficult engineering challenge.
Hydrogen is a gas which only liquifies under extreme conditions. This makes it useless for general use. Either you need extreme pressure to hold enough, or you need extreme cryogenics. There have been advances in hydrides, but nowhere near enough for use as a general purpose fuel.
Because you haven't a clue, but like shouting.
Son - you are a hopeless deeamer chasing marketing campaigns. Like the others who have told you, I have a university degree in chemistry, and actual understanding of the difficulties and the actual state of the technology. Hydrogen is hopeless for general use.
You clearly have no understanding, at all, but love waving your arms around, jabbering and gesticulating violently.
Hydrogen will be the solution for specific industries - for instance the reducing agent to make green steel.
However, it is useless for transportation or fuel.
Is there a hotel full of refuge-seeking tax evaders from Dubai that we can picket?
Hydrogen is rubbish for most purposes. Mostly pushed by the fossil fuel lobby, as they want to crack methane to produce blue hydrogen, hence expanding the use of their hydrocarbon assets.
This is the famous old café Brinkman in the early morning if put all the tables out, but nobody is there yet just the trees standing between the tables and the building.
Good morning from Haarlem.
#GoodMorningFromHaarlem
The Commonwealth is a complete irrelevance and the UK should leave it.
Chris, an Irishman, comes to the Russian Embassy in Dublin every day to perform the Ukrainian National Anthem.
What a ridiculous take.
Churchill was an incompetent racist drunkard, who lost more British soldiers to satisfy his cravings to play with tin soldiers than any other military incompetent the UK ever produced.
Eisenhower
Better to shove it up the arse of the ICE cunt gassing you.
Comically bizarre. Tear gassed? Rub an onion in your eye!
