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Everyone agrees the trains are bad and nobody agrees about why.
Nationalised for forty years and they were not better. Ownership is not the variable.
Depends which line. Some of it is ownership, most of it is that track and trains are run by different people.
Every decision is made on a shorter timescale than the thing it affects. Defer the maintenance, leave before the bill lands.
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Most political arguments look like disagreements about facts and are really disagreements about what matters. The first kind can be settled. Nobody in history has settled the second by producing a better statistic.
Ask anyone whether they want the truth from their doctor and they say yes, then go to pieces the moment a doctor is actually blunt with them.
Calling it phone addiction misses it. Most people are bored at work, and the phone is the only thing that isn't.
Every health app I have tried eventually becomes a thing I am failing at rather than a thing that helps.
Reading a hard book slowly is not the same activity as reading an easy book slowly, and treating them as one thing is why reading targets are useless. Counting books is like counting meals — the number is accurate and it tells you almost nothing about whether anything was absorbed.
T20 made Test cricket better, not worse, and the people who say otherwise have not watched a fourth innings run chase lately.
Peer review does more harm than good at this point. Two anonymous strangers, no accountability, eighteen months, and a result nobody will ever try to reproduce.
Walking is free, works for nearly everybody, and has no equipment attached, which is exactly why you never hear about it.
Polarisation gets the blame, but the lasting damage from social media might be flattening — every subject arrives at the same size, in the same box, with the same three reactions available, whether it is a war or a sandwich.
"Free delivery" is not free and we all know it is not free and we all still pick it, which I think says something slightly embarrassing about all of us.
I've come round to thinking most productivity advice is just a way of feeling organised for about a week.
Cities keep building cycle lanes that stop. Just end, mid-road, and you are in traffic. What is the point of ninety percent of a cycle lane?
Everything now assumes you have a phone on you, and we made that assumption into infrastructure without ever voting on it.
Lower league football is better to attend and worse to watch, and the people who only do one of those never believe the other.
Your council decides more about your actual week than Parliament does — the bins, the buses, whether the road gets fixed — and you probably can't name a single councillor.
Moving house is the only reliable way to find out what you actually own, and the answer is always "far less than this".
Nobody has ever said "we should document this properly" and then documented it properly.
Every company I have joined has a three week onboarding plan and the actual onboarding is one person who has been there six years and answers questions. Nobody has ever written that person into the plan.
Reading fiction makes you more empathetic, or at least better at imagining that other people have an interior life at all, which may be the same thing.
Everyone I know is on their phone in bed and everyone I know is tired. I am not saying it is causal. I am saying it is a hell of a coincidence.
My mother has started every phone call for about eleven years by asking whether I have eaten, and I used to find it maddening. It is not really a question. She does not want to know what I ate. If I say yes she moves on immediately and if I say no she is briefly upset, so it is not information she is gathering, it is a check that I am alright, in a form that does not require either of us to say anything embarrassing. I have come round to thinking most of what people find irritating about their parents is this — a real thing being expressed in a code that got set decades ago and never updated. The content is fine. The format is from 1994. What changed my mind was catching myself asking my nephew whether he is keeping busy, which is the same question wearing a different coat, and realising I had inherited the whole apparatus without noticing.
Saying the uncomfortable thing is usually the kind option, and almost nobody does it, because the discomfort arrives immediately and the kindness turns up months later.
Nobody has ever been promoted for the thing they are actually best at, in my experience, and I cannot decide whether that is a flaw.
Search has got noticeably worse and I have started adding the name of a forum to the end of every query, which is a strange thing to have to do in 2026.
The best thing about going to a match is the twenty minutes before anything happens, and no broadcast has ever worked out how to show it.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.