Campaigners held up a huge banner at London's Waterloo station, which read: "Cut rail fares, not rail staff".
To the Editor: I fondly read Evan Rail's "One More for the Road" (May 20).
Metres away from London Road Fire Station, the chalkboard above the downstairs bar at the Star and Garter reads: "Network Rail: Charognarde en costards bas de gamme (carrion in low-end suits)." To its diehard regulars, the Star and Garter is "the last ever truly indie venue you will know".
Yes, to all those who may read this and rail against the Haitians who have mostly captured this country's compassion, consider yourself hugged.
Sell all your Polish high-speed rail stocks," read one post.
I read Christopher Hitchens when he railed against the Catholic Church, Richard Dawkins when he dismissed religion as a worldwide force for evil, and Reddit, where posters turned the Hitch-Dawk philosophy into sound bites and graphics.
Read more about high-speed rail here.
The cabinets in the library are too low (you practically have to genuflect to read the titles), the grab rails in the showers are in the wrong spot, the tenders are surprisingly utilitarian compared to those of other cruise ships; there's no pool, not even a hot tub; and, worst of all for this thwarted seafarer, passengers are not allowed on the forepeak to savor the plunge and scend of the waves.
Protesters at Waterloo handed leaflets to passengers and carried a huge banner reading: "Cut rail fares, not rail staff".
And Britain's longer-term structural reforms things like sharp competition enforcement, flexible labour markets and private rail operators and ports, read like an IMF textbook.
