Mark Hodgkinson

Particle Physicist for a living, hiker, squash player and film addict.

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@AvantiWestCoast @erin_perin But we are already south of there!

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@AvantiWestCoast @erin_perin Why is the train being cancelled?

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@AvantiWestCoast @erin_perin Will other trains still run from Preston to London today?

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@AvantiWestCoast news media claims no trains will run between Glasgow and London tomorrow. But can’t find any announcement from you. Can you clarify?

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@donmcgowan @BBCWorld @BBCr4today @LBC How many times has Ed Davey, who has 70 MPs, been on?

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@NautilieC @TheGriftReport @Keir_Starmer People also forget they can’t leave. Even with a tv etc being locked in a room for years on end isn’t going to be much fun.

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@garygilligan @Ryanleigh1231 Not necessarily. They may have thought they would not win a lot of these seats, so it wouldn’t matter. The voters aren’t going to be happy about this.

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@sylwiamk @dearaunty @BriefcaseMike In France my tax forms only had a French option. Not sure about the health system. In pharmacies they would switch to English if I struggled, but unsure if that was official policy.

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@Thomas_L_Scott @JonathanBrash They are doing the same in reverse. The scheme relevant to me was in France. This is a similar scheme with India.

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@Thomas_L_Scott @JonathanBrash There is tax and social security (NI). They pay tax here but not NI. The reason I paid tax but not social security overseas was because I paid NI here AND had to have private medical insurance overseas so I would not cost their government anything if I got ill.

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@AlexandriaMEast @antoiney0117 @mirts88 @JonathanBrash @John9191toe @RajabGhandour It’s in line with what I paid for private medical insurance when I worked overseas.

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@PhilJC2 @CptHastings1916 Don’t forget you can get a large fraction refunded when the train is inevitably late or cancelled!

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@KingBill @TallyCat8 Because no private investors would touch it with a barge pole.

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@AlexUribarri @basedlayer Apple Pay doesn’t need internet to work, at least not on your phone. I thought the vendor did need internet though for it to work.

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@djbshearer @DavidDavisMP @Philosophy_the There are no transcripts. That’s why it will cost serious money to get them for a big trial,

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@TheBTCViking @CaldronPool I bet peoples gardens aren’t full of cat poo though.

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@scott_edinburgh @theiaincameron Maps can also be bought laminated nowadays.

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@herdyshepherd1 @ChairmanMao2121 They can import their meat. What is stopping them upgrading their production to our standards?

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@rageinhisfeet @TJiMTS If they wanted to annoy the motorist wouldn’t the cheap option have been to not build a tunnel?