This whole thing is fucking weird. Now they’ve arrested a UK-Iranian person for preparation of terror attacks in relation to this.

What can the nationalised operator do to reduce the number of cancellations? Is there a way to tell if they’re at fault, or if the cancellations are down to the Network Rail side of things?

It sounds like someone made a call before the woman did, so that might explain it and the very rapid response (she claims the armed police were there within 10 minutes).

The US president, Donald Trump, claimed to have had the suspects under view for a “long time” and alleged the men “were looking to do big damage” – although the Guardian understands the operation was not intelligence-led, suggesting investigators had not known about any potential plot in advance.

“It was fantastic. Working with Britain, it was an amazing job,” Trump said.

Obviously more bullshit. The whole thing was foiled by a woman returning home late from a party and calling the police. Nobody knew jack-shit!

For me it’s the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.

It was behind a paywal so felt it made more sense to primarily link to the un-paywalled version.

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It sounds like it. I’m sure you’re able to provide a comprehensive list for such locations?

Oh no! Anyway…

Scotland, mid-wales, lot of places in rural England? There’s strict laws around how long drivers are allowed to drive for, so driving a couple of hours out of the way might not be an option.

Yeah, but I’m thinking about areas not near motorways.

Or just have them charge overnight slowly when the driver is asleep. A single basic 100 KW DC charger would suffice to do it in 6 hours.

Assuming they can get to a charger. Lots of trucks pull up in laybys, instrustial estates and other random locations so the driver can sleep, and there’s strict laws around how long a driver can drive for.

Maybe existing petrol stations would pivot to being more like truck stops, where trucks can stop overnight and charge.

I wonder what the future will look like for long-distance haulage. These solutions should be fine for trucks that always return to their depots within 24 hours, but what about those that are away all week? Haulage companies will want confidence that they can have their trucks charged anytime, anywhere.

Sky must have some sort of script to block copying their text, as I couldn’t easily copy/paste that snippet.

The UK will only provide support for air-to-air refuelling for Saudi planes on defensive missions, rather than for a wider range of military actions.

One RAF voyager will be used for the refuelling.

Yep. They can barely make any progress against a country they share a huge land border with. How the hell would they launch a serious campaign against the UK? I really struggle to take it seriously.

Russia’s a bigger threat in terms of espionage and sabotage to the UK and Europe.

BoyDinnerDiaries, GirlDinnerDiaries (GDD) and the GDD circle jerk subs are definitetly my guilty pleasure. I’m not sure why Reddit suddenly started pushing them so hard on everyone, it has to have been a consious decision for them.

It’s always entertaining in GDD when the men hate train is in full choo-choo, only for OP to say that their partner is actually a woman.

The train lines between Manchester - Leeds & York go over the Pennines with lots of very old, very long tunnels. The cost to electrify those lines probably doesn’t make it worth it. Maybe they could partially electrify it closer to Manchester & Leeds which would require smaller and lighter batteries.

You can view the line on this drivers cab video from Manchester to York.

This design is an abomination really, there’d be so many accidents around the merging, where the traffic streams effectively have to swap over.

Because, you know, cars and car infrastructure don’t already take up massive amounts of space as is.

The only defence of this is that it would take LESS space than some kind of cloverleaf system. I think this whole design is trying to be space efficient whilst attemptign to keep traffic flowing (which it wouldn’t do).

Something like 40% of our electricty in the UK is from renewables - on some days it’s 100%! There are days where we’re having to pay wind farms to NOT generate electricity as we already have an oversupply. I honestly don’t see energy supply as a bottleneck for EV uptake.