Nighed

There are too many idiots around to assume sarcasm . (Definition of idiot may differ depending on political affinity)

I believe it would be a 45 (actually 42) min journey under gravity power only?

(Assuming frictionless travel in a vacuum...)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_train

Not as enlightening as their credit card article, but still an interesting read.

There are some interesting ideas in there that I hadn't heard of. Interesting article

From what I understand he doesn't have an exit clause on Newey leaving, but if he wants to go he can go, not like he doesn't have enough money.

I don't really see Max going to another team though, more likely another racing series. Wouldn't put it past him to get bored and come back though!

They are upping the rates on their fixed rate deals ( 5.84% for the next two years for example).

Because these rates can't be changed once agreed the banks forecast what they think the cost of their borrowing will be over the next two years (based on the central bank/gov interest rates) and set a customer facing rate that is competitive but will make them good money.

They have been setting their rates with the assumption that the government set interest rates will fall sharply this year. That would mean they could give customers an interest rate that's lower than the current government rate now because in a years time the government rate will have fallen and the customer would still be paying the fixed (higher) rate they agreed. (Making the bank good money)

However, inflation is proving more entrenched than expected and the government isn't reducing interest rates like expected. The banks are therefore not offering those lower interest deals to customers as they're not expecting to make it back later.

So this is that 90% of a factories CO2 emissions are not being captured by it's on site carbon capture facility. (Not that the carbon capture plant is releasing emissions).

On my (quick) read of the article, I don't think it said why that was. Was the plant at capacity, or did it have headroom, but the CO2 was just not being effectively captured to be stored?

I tend to put 2 - 3 days worth of stuff in the fridge, then freeze the rest (if it's something reheatable)

I then eat something else from the freezer for the rest of the week so I don't eat the same thing for a whole week.

How it generally works now is that the operators win a contract from the government to run a line for X years. They pay the government for that contract, then have (as a for profit company) to make enough money to make a profit on top of that. There are various rules though on the fare increases allowed (hah!) and the contracts generally include minimum service levels etc.

The actual tracks and signals are run by network rail who are a state owned company that own most of the infrastructure (replaced Railtrack who were an actual public company that went bust!)

The stations are managed as part of the operator contracts I believe? Unsure on their ownership.

Because the operator's contracts are time limited the operators can change over time, when that happens though the rolling stock (trains) are generally transferred with that, either through being sold to the new operator or leased. (It's not like you can order a new fleet of trains and get them delivered on short notice!)

My understanding is that labour is mostly going to take over the running of each contract as it runs out instead of buying them out. I assume they are then leasing the trains to avoid the up front expense of buying them all. As they won't be trying to make a profit it (should) be possible to run a cheaper service and could/should allow the lines to be run for the public good instead. (That's where people opinion of public ownership comes in)

There are already some lines run like this as the operator went bust and it defaulted back to government control.

A policy! And I thought they were just campaigning on "we're not the Tories"!?

This is more just confirming a rough policy they have had for ages right? Just let the contracts age out and take them over when they do?

I do wonder if just allowing the operators to actually compete on the same lines might help though (within reason)

It's one of the slot in ones though right? so it doesn't really count - it effectively integrated.