Someone who was concerned for the poorest in society. A great shame he finished his career campaigning for something to make them even poorer. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

The “peak” #Avanti westcoast #Avanti train at 0815 from Manchester to London. Of course the prices are totally fine, nothing to see here, not putting anyone off travelling at all.

Susan Hall AM You can trust Susan to put up fares.

'By contrast the Tory candidate voted to block Sadiq's TfL fares freeze and cheered on the Tory government imposing punitive funding deals on Transport for London.'
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Another day another #AvantiWestCoast service with no working coffee machine and at seat charging out of action. Avanti West Coast

The amazing thing about being on a delayed #avantiwestcoast train is their constant pretence that it will make up time when all experience says it will (as this is doing) get later and later. Andy Burnham Mayor of Greater Manchester

RIP to American artist #DanGoozee who has sadly died aged 81. While a name many will not recognise, his work has been prominent for generations across Hollywood and Disney with movie posters, commercial adverts and billboards. 🌷

Sing a four minute song in the shower like Bohemian Rhapsody says the “expert” on water saving on BBC Breakfast. That would be the Bohemian Rhapsody famous for its six minute length, would it?

Lord Ashcroft Yeah, not as funny as this though

Only the genius managers at #avantiwestcoast could have specified their “refurbishment” of TILTING trains with plastic tables that things slide straight off when they’re at an angle. Sack them now. Christian Wolmar

This looks nice on Holborn gyratory

I must say I’m getting increasingly hostile to Cancer Research UK carpet bombing TV ads saying we are beating cancer. You know, as I sit watching TV with my dying mother, who is dying of cancer. It’s just insensitive and inappropriate.

I love the way that the Rochdale result is being seen only in terms of a headache for Labour and no one seems worried that a large Northern town just elected an MP who was a mate of Saddam Hussein and thinks Hamas are doing a fine job.

#markfrancois : “we need to keep the first gen Typhoons ready in case”. Also Mark Francois: “we want tax cuts!” Which pond did they dredge this generation of Conservative politicians from?

Smug comments like this are driven more by the individual’s personal beliefs. Most people know perfectly well that assisted dying isn’t an option. Of course they don’t ask for what they can’t have.

I didn’t realise until watching #thespaceshuttlethatfelltoearth to what extent NASA walked into the Columbia disaster headfirst but with its eyes apparently wilfully shut

They walk among us.