What Is Russian For Schadenfreude?
I just felt that this was worth posting.
Did the diver get his substances all wrong?
He certainly wasn’t able to stand straight!
Will Putin send the poor unfortunate diver to Siberia?
Are The Doom-Mongers Starting Up About Crossrail?
The title of this article in the Standard is Hatton Garden jewellery district ‘faces extinction over Crossrail rent rises’
So what?
Did the owners of sweat shops in East London complain, when new clothing factories set up with more enlightened attitudes to their workers in Victorian times.
You bet they did!
But just as the City has reinvented itself with Canary Wharf, Hatton Garden will have to move on and change to survive.
Some won’t like it, but hopefully what emerges will be stronger and probably a lot more legal, with regards to tax and money laundering.
I also was accosted by a station-man at Shenfield, who said that everybody would hate the new trains, as you’ll have to stand all the way to London.
The design of the trains appears to be such, that seats will be more numerous at the ends of the trains, with metro style seating and a lot of standing in the middle.
This layout is so that when the train is running in Tube-mode between Stratford and Paddington, there is enough capacity for those wanting to do a couple of stops.
But those boarding in the suburbs will probably get a seat all the way to the centre. In the morning peak, there would appear to 16 trains per hour (tph) to Central London.
I do wonder if the RMT will have it in for the new Class 345 trains, as they have a degree of automation, never seen before in trains in the UK.
Some of this automation, will mean very different methods of working, but will be essential to obtain Crossrail’s frequency of 24 tph.
Is Success In Rio Down To John Major?
This article on the BBC is entitled Rio 2016: Does John Major deserve credit for Team GB’s success?
This is the opening paragraph.
The sight of Team GB above China in the Olympic medal table has led some to heap praise on John Major, whose government took the decision to launch the National Lottery. The lottery has poured money into sport in the UK, but can it claim credit for medal success?
Even, if to give total credit to John Major is perhaps a bit over the top, but without the Lottery funding, British Olympic performance, would be lucky to be as good as England’s footballers.
But money isn’t everything, as if it was Manchester City would win the Premier League every year and given the coffers of the Lawn Tennis Association, we’d dominate world tennis.
The Anonymous Widower 