Simon Bennett

Would I type Circle Line, when the style should be Circle line?

It’s the whole problem with War and Peace. It’s not the length, I’ve read longer, but the fact that the early chapters are all introductions to characters who one assumes are going to turn up later and your brain gets full before anything happens in the story. I’ve tried twice.

There already has been one, of a different kind, as rail revenue has risen faster than before the rail workers pay deal, so reducing the taxpayer cash needed.

For me apparently it was a bloody awful cold that was being staved off. What a waste of the time off. And I’ve got such a headache I can’t even do my tax return.

And now it’s like trying to have a conversation with your friends in a crowded bar, where the rest of the patrons have been specifically invited in by the landlord to push your friends out of the way and shout at you.

Glad to see you getting ratioed over saying these are all tube lines.

Live tonight at 7pm! Railway chat with Jonn Elledge! Tune in on the Substack app!

TONIGHT at 7pm! I'm going to do a Substack Live video thing with @jonnelledge.bsky.social!

The ostensible excuse is to talk about the newly named lines on the London Overground. But I guess I might ask him about Transport Secretaries too...!

Tune in!

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Live tonight at 7pm: talking trains, with James O’Malley Yes, I do know how to have a good time!

Doing a live video chat thing with @jamesomalley.co.uk tonight, if that's your jazz

Oh blinking heck, I’ll be just getting on a plane at Johannesburg airport, otherwise, obviously.

BLUESKY CHRISTMAS DISCOURSE SCHEDULE 1 Dec - Whamageddon Debate 3 Dec - Amusing DIY Advent Calendars 8 Dec - Elf On The F**king Shelf 10 Dec - Fairytale Of New York Lyrics 13 Dec - _ Is Actually A Christmas Movie 15 Dec - Crappy Winter Wonderland Scandal 17 Dec - Christmas Radio Times Nostalgia 20 Dec - Chris Rea 21 Dec - It's A Wonderful Life Appreciation 23 Dec - Baffling Cracker Jokes 24 Dec - Subtweeting House Guests 25 Dec - Doctor Who 26 Dec - Doctor Who 27 Dec - Bounty Bar Celebrations 28 Dec - The Word "Merryneum" 31 Dec - Hootenanny Rage 1 Jan - Public Domain Day 2 Jan - Cadburys Creme Eggs In Shops 3 Jan - When Is Bins?

They’ve released the Christmas Discourse Schedule! Lots to look forward to this year.

I’d hate to feel that I couldn’t express an opinion about something, because my opinion happened to have some points aligned with people who were ‘politicising’.

I agree in general, but I also don’t like the Jaguar rebrand, not for political reasons, but because I’m a Jaguar owner and would like them to stay at least somewhat the brand I bought into.

I think it’s a bit weird to expect it. Martin Lewis followed me back and frankly, I’m confused by that.

Hopefully I’ll have something more worthwhile to say in due course.

Right, it’s been a few days, I really ought to skeet something!
(Yes it took me this long to find out that’s the term, I don’t *completely* hate it.