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“Trying”. He’s managed to take French government spending when he took office in 2017 from 57.5% of GDP to 57.3% last year.

Have any parties stated any policies that would eliminate food bank usage? It’s not as if it’s solely a UK problem, that well-known bastion of the small state, France, apparently have 3 million people reliant on them.

Are the people asking how someone has voted definitely a Teller, or could they be someone conducting an exit poll? Which clearly isn't illegal, or we wouldn't have the broadcasters giving their predicted result as soon as the polls closed.

Appointment of judges in the US is a political process. Nominations for positions at a federal level are made by the executive (i.e. the president), and have to be confirmed by a vote in the Senate.

Comments on threads about the Marston Vale line previously suggested that the Class 150/153 units were maintained at the Tyseley depot in Birmingham. E.g. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/marston-vale-line-suspension-over-full-services-start-running-19-02-24.242143/page-19#post-6333588

I'm often fascinated by footballers who are born in England, often play age-grade football for England, but then choose another country to represent as an adult. Do the familial ties pull stronger? Did they think they had a better chance of getting into the team of a different country?

Oops, should have been a hadn’t in there.

Although he’s a minority shareholder, the Glazers gave him control over the sporting organisation.

What do you mean by Oxford-Bedford? EWR splits those into Oxford-Bletchley and Bletchley-Bedford. The former of those is almost finished as per https://eastwestrail.co.uk/news/latest-stories/east-meets-west You could not bother to run any services over it, but there’s effectively no point...

Lando did have a fresh set of tyres versus Max’s used ones, so although the slow stop immediately closed the gap, Lando could well have been up there soon enough. Would Lando have been getting so desperate if Max hadn’t reverted to his old habits of messing about in the braking zone?

It sounds more like it’s struck a nerve with you personally. Campaigning on the basis that the other lot are going to destroy everything has been standard for years. How many times have Labour wheeled out “N days to save the NHS”?

Unless things are very different in Scotland, extending a house since 1991 would potentially make it liable to move up a band. But the reassessment only generally happens when the house is sold as you’re not going to appeal the band you’re in because you think it should be higher.

The lights etc. might not be directly wired into the traction battery, but the power for them does ultimately have to come from that battery. What other power source is there in an EV?

The term limit was put in as a constitutional amendment. Changing that requires 2/3rds votes in both houses plus 3/4s of the states to ratify it. The US isn’t Russia, it’s far too split for anything like that to go through, much as Trump’s supporters might dream of it.

Sticking Bald Rick's numbers into the Bank of England inflation calculator which uses CPI: 80.4p in 2004 is 140.7p as of May 131.1p in 2014 is 175.6p as of May.

I was under the impression that BR introduced what were then called Apex fares which today's Advances are the descendants.

You would have to ask them for a definitive answer, but I expect it would decide that was the start of a second journey and the first was to be charged at the standard £3.20. I was using my phone so don't have complete visibility, I saw an initial 10p charge, which a couple of days later was...

This isn’t entirely correct. Nottingham now has a ‘short hop’ fare for journeys completed within 20 minutes. This is £1.50 instead of the usual £3.20 for a single on the tram. But to get this fare you have to tap in and out. https://nottinghamcontactless.co.uk/prices has a longer description.

https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/match/2036195--czechia-vs-turkiye/statistics/ reckons 16 yellow and 2 red, including the flurry after the final whistle. Though I don’t know if that definitely includes cards for coaches as well. (There was some confusion earlier regarding the tie breaker between...

https://board.tfl.gov.uk/documents/s22122/fc-20240313-item06b-budget-part1-appx1.pdf on page 16 has £1,914m of business rates retention for 2023/24.