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Children under 16 already get free travel on buses and trams in London, though they have to pay discounted fares on the tube and they'll need a photocard if they are 11 or over.

W B Yeats, born in Dublin in 1865, put it like this: The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the…

Ironically, it was ignored by the authors in much of their writing, both in "Elements" and other works.

"28 times smaller than" (and the like) is one of my bugbears. I think it means "1/28th of the size", but then you get constructions like "three times smaller than" instead of the c…

Tomatoes are vegetables and fruit. "Fruit" is a botanical category, including plenty of things that are inedible for various reasons. "Vegetable" is a culinary category, including …

Only if the child in question is male.

Calling an election is now back in the hands of the government (not parliament) since the repeal of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act; a PM can ask the monarch to call an election wit…

> a party that wins 35% of the vote gets 35% of the seats At the last general election to the UK parliament (2019), the Tories won 44% of the votes, and ended up with 56% of the se…

> It keeps happening because there are no consequences for it happening Worse than that - the consequences are positive for Experian: "For now, Rishi has decided to pay Experian $2…

I'm struggling to believe this - without informed consent this has to be medical malpractice (enough to end someone's career) and/or a crime.

I think OP was suggesting that if you hint (or state explicitly) that men's restrooms are unsuitable for nappy changing, you'll be able to avoid an unpleasant chore (by pushing it …

Take your paternity leave (as much as you can). Drop down to a four day work week, even if you feel like it's a risky question to ask, as soon as you can. Everyone will tell you th…

Blame Chorleywood; sounds like the setting for a children's TV programme, actually the name of the process whereby we get a bread-adjacent product that's suitable for mass producti…

Miners have a pretty high chance death while on the job - according to https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/os/osar0012.htm , the US death rate in 2007 (because that's the first figur…

Scottish notes are not even legal tender in Scotland. This isn't as bad as it sounds, in fact, as many things (credit cards, for example) are not legal tender but are widely accept…

"Seizing the Means of Production" is a reference to Marx, who had many things to say about class tension, such as "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of cl…

I think that's in "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman". As I recall, he gave up on it because no-one else could understand him - notation is both a tool of thought and of communicati…

Some data; traffic-related deaths per 100,000 population: US (2018 figures): 12.4 France: (2019): 5 Of course this neglects many confounding variables, but a factor of nearly 2.5 i…

Unless they were hospital staff, emergency responders, etc, etc...

More species of tree, not more trees.

A good idea, but unfortunately the author has thought of that - every page starts and ends with a complete sentence!

I'm pretty sure that they can't do it without your consent (and cooperation) - they at least have to verify your identity documents (name, address, DOB, etc), get a list of your ad…