Coach is a really cheap way if you have the time and mental will.

I still use it for the same reasons you mentioned. Also small businesses since they don't have to deal with card processing fees then (generally ask what they prefer) plus "other accounting measures".

Bait headline and the BBC practically copied and pasted The Times article.

Quite the switch over. Nice work.

Hate the stuff.

Aye. Long been a thing: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28536706M/Awkward_Partner

There was a "the Onion" headline for this kind of criticism: https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/

LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they’re already doing and will keep doing no matter what. “Angelenos—don’t engage in violence and give the administration an excuse to inflict all the damage they have been inflicting carte blanche for months on end,” said Bass, adding that Trump and his team are just looking for a reason to respond with violence, as they would have done whether or not any of this happened

Chocolate squares. I don't have them though. Too much sugar. It's a dessert treat.

I wonder if part of this is because they want to use NHS numbers for children in schools as a consistant identifier. I wouldn't be shocked if that was part of the reasoning.

For qualifying for it? No, I don't think so.

I read in the Financial Times that maintenance max. is to go up by £450

That's where a good bus network would help and infrastructure built less around cars would make shorter distances more likely for other means like cycling/walking.