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Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
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We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

MATTHEW BADLOSS IS IT

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters.
If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

As Telegraph hit jobs go, this one is impressively, next-level, bonkers. You can hear the Editor screaming at reporters to find some more woke, being slightly crestfallen when all that comes back is some career objectives Romeo once offered and then shrugging and giving the "print it anyway" wave:

(as it's a closed-list system where candidates are ranked by the party, the bottom two will only ever have a chance of getting in if someone higher-ranked leaves)

My understanding is that it's in case anyone drops out, the seat can be filled without a by-election

good morning, it is day 3 of strikes at the University of Essex to save 400 jobs across all depts & stop the closure of our Southend Campus and our Foundation Year programme. The campus cat Pebbles is in solidarity 💕

Yo check out this sick bird

High Court considers Government Legal Department search and seizure of Special Advocate's sensitive material - Matrix Chambers A hearing has been held to consider allegations that GLD staff unlawfully entered the office of a Special Advocate representing the interests of Abu Faraj al‑Libi.

Unbelievable
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Read something earlier about burnout and the personal cost of work and it stunned me that there are people for whom this is a less-acute concept. When you're Disabled/ND, the personal cost of working a full-time job is just one of those things you take for granted.

I wonder how long you get to claim that, and whether you can drag it out to when the max expiry is reduced

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The fact they’re actually working on a whole suite to gradually replace e.g GSuite is actually so good, I’ve been keeping an eye on LaSuite for a while-
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Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

computer science is when you write “Alice” and “Bob” and “Eve” on a whiteboard and the more times you write it, the more science the computer is

You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof. What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate

AFAICT yes, literally just the Wikipedia page and having made … an FOI request??

i am pro lynx and it is entirely based on emotion and the joy of Large Kitty and you cannot present facts to stand in my way

nice!

(side observation: ‘Welsh Assembly constituency’ is a bit old hat, especially next to ‘future Senedd constituency’ :p)

mine does this often enough to be annoying, think the only red one i’ve seen was ‘you‘ve run out of space’ though (you’d think they’d not auto hide that one??)

in case it’s helpful (and it hasn’t vanished from there) should be able to click the clock in the top right to see old notifs

HEED THE OMEN OF THE ROWLING CUBE.

as someone speaking British English: “all of the print jobs have not been finished” isn’t a construction I think I’d ever use, and it would make me do a double take
I would assume that meant 0/10 but ask for clarification… will be interesting to read about three-cueing

Geeks for Social What? Our year of explorations & beginnings All years in recent memory have been grievous and alarming, but here's what we did to make 2025 better and build for 2026. A run-down of GFSC's projects, articles, and methods for making technology wh...

All years in recent memory have been grievous and alarming, but here's what we did to make 2025 better and build for 2026. A run-down of GFSC's projects, articles, and methods for making technology which can strengthen communities.

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The NHS: "Health sec, there is too much demand for autism, ADHD and mental health services, the waiting lists are too long, we need investment!"

Wes Streeting: "Hearing you loud and clear! Let's have a review into how we can stop people accessing those services to cut the load :3"

When it is constitutionally impossible for one's "interpretation" to be incorrect, no matter how outlandish an interpretation it may be, then yeah, there really is no material difference between making and interpreting anymore.

’cases in which a person has a reasonable excuse […] include (but are not limited to)’ s16(8) is quite load bearing here I think. I‘ve listened to the Shipping Forecast to wind down before bed on occasion before, and that’s not on the list; I’d now already be on the back foot if they came after me

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