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I must confess to being a little obsessed with Japan these days. The culture of general respect, their sense of their own worth and it looks beautiful. Definitely want a visit.
Once every ten days, a bright canary-yellow bullet train glides into Tokyo Station at full speed, yet not a single passenger is allowed to step on board.
Its windows are mostly covered from the inside, its timetable is never published for the public, and there are no ticketed seats in any of its seven cars.
In Japan, every child and every commuter knows this train by two English words: Doctor Yellow.
Since the Tokaido Shinkansen began running between Tokyo and Osaka in October 1964, Japanese bullet trains have carried more than seven billion passengers at speeds up to one hundred and eighty-five miles per hour with zero passenger fatalities from derailments or collisions.
Critics sometimes assume that kind of sixty-year safety record is a miracle of luck.
It is not luck; it is what happens when a nation builds a high-speed hospital train whose only patient is the steel track itself.
Why does Japan run a seven-car bullet train painted bright yellow with zero paying customers on board?
In the early days of high-speed rail, engineers realized that checking hundreds of miles of track on foot at night with hand gauges was too slow, and that tracks behave differently when a three-hundred-ton train slams over them at one hundred and sixty-eight miles per hour.
So Japanese railway engineers took a seven-car Class 923 Shinkansen trainset and packed every car from nose to tail with laser-optical sensors, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and high-speed cameras.
Running in the middle of the regular passenger schedule at a full one hundred and sixty-eight miles per hour, Doctor Yellow fires laser beams onto the left and right rails to measure track width, vertical dip, and curvature alignment down to one-tenth of a millimeter, about the thickness of a single human hair.
At the same time, two special observation domes built into the roof and laser pantographs check the overhead high-voltage copper wire for microscopic wear before a single spark can cause a power outage.
The instant Doctor Yellow detects a rail that has shifted by even a fraction of an inch, it beams the exact GPS coordinates to maintenance crews waiting along the line so they can fix the spot that very night after the last passenger train goes to sleep.
Because its schedule is kept secret so crowds do not pack the platforms, Japanese commuters treat spotting Doctor Yellow by chance as a genuine good-luck charm that brings happiness for the rest of the week.
Safety is never an accident when engineers check their work down to the width of a hair.
(Note: Every photograph-style illustration on my feed is created by AI.)
He’s throwing a lot of UK cash (or more borrowing) at other countries. With no mandate. Meanwhile here interest rates up, inflation up and anger levels rising.
Britain has agreed to pay into European Union development schemes as the price for rejoining the bloc’s electricity market, according to a draft text seen by The Telegraph.
Taxpayer money will be funnelled into projects to build roads, airports and green energy facilities across the bloc’s poorer member states under the plan.
In exchange, British energy companies will be allowed to trade freely in the EU’s single market for electricity.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
Feels like a big win for both sides. Harry & family seem to be fully enjoying life in Germany and Bayern are reaping big rewards.
Looking forward to an exciting future with @fcbayern! Here’s to many more wins, trophies and great memories 🙌❤️
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This apology from disability charity Scope, for cancelling my choir’s London Marathon performance because of my gender-critical views, is required to stay on its website for seven days.
Today is Day 6.
Women don’t always get the apologies they deserve. So I’d be grateful if you could help make sure this one is seen by sharing it over the next 24 hours (link below). 🙏
Thanks again to @SpeechUnion for supporting my legal case and helping secure this apology.
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😳 Page number 111 of the budget.
Always read the small print! The stuff they won’t mention.
3 home wins in a row. Couldn’t buy one last season. Thank you Tony Mowbray for giving these lads the belief and enjoyment.
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Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia and it breaks my heart 💔
Deliberately provocative timing. 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month is deeply symbolic in this country. And they wonder why people get aggrieved.
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To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad:
Do not blame the French people for this.
We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no.
Here are the numbers your media won't show you.
70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today.
79% want a tougher immigration policy.
77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration.
83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home.
And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years.
This is not a fringe. This is the French people.
In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again.
That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway.
So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations.
In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders.
It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed.
What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it.
The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did.
So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this."
The French never chose this.
They were forced into it.
If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us.
If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd. xitter.cf/MisterKraKra/status/21…
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Dear @bbcnews - today you told the world of an innocent family targeted in Gaza.
This is an image those parents posted of their daughter, along with the caption "Hamas girl."
So I wondered what due diligence you do before spreading terrorist propaganda?
Asking for a friend.
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In 1967 Britain had more electric vehicles on its roads than every other country on earth put together, and they were all delivering milk.
There were tens of thousands of them. The milk float: open sided, battery under the floor, top speed of about 15 miles an hour, and a whine you could pick out in your sleep. It was charged overnight at the depot and was back there by lunchtime.
It carried glass bottles. Each one was collected from your step the next morning, washed and refilled. A bottle went round like that 20 or 30 times before it broke. The foil cap went for scrap. There was no other packaging.
The milk had come from farms within a few miles, through a local dairy, and was on the step before 7.
So here is what the country had. A zero-emission delivery fleet. Reusable containers with a return rate any modern scheme would kill for. No plastic. A supply chain you could cycle the length of. A man who noticed if an old lady's bottles were piling up, and knocked.
It was dismantled in about 15 years, because a supermarket could sell milk a few pence cheaper in a plastic jug as a way of getting you through the door.
Every piece of that system is now the subject of a government target for 2040.
It was running in 1967, silently, in the dark, and nobody thought it was worth a mention.
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Are you suffering from a severe lack of popularity ? Want to be rich and famous again ? Have you tried the Gaza Grift ?
#GazaGrift #Grifters #VirtueSignalForClicks
Went to the pub with an ok covers band tonight. And then they suddenly kicked in Pretty Vacant. My mood changed!
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I have finally after 43 years of membership, and being a very active senior staff rep in the NHS, resigned from my union, Unite, over it's refusal to respect women's rights.
It has made it plain that it has no respect for women and believes that men who identify as women make better women than those born female. – at Haddington, Scotland
This is the next big scandal. It is an absolute travesty that the government is acting like a loan shark on the back of education. I have no problem asking students to fund their higher education but to shaft them with penal interest rates is obsene.
I borrowed £43,871 when I went to uni and graduated in 2020.
I have been paying off my Plan 2 student loan since April 2021.
Today, my balance is £89,861.50.
Back in August 2024 my interest rate was 8% each month. To put that into context, that’s £590.90, and I could only afford to pay £115.00.
How is this fair?
In 2016 I was told it would feel like a household bill or a trip to the cinema. Now it’s the difference between getting on the property ladder or staying in rented flat shares.
Every month, to this day, £307.30 of interest is added to my bill. And I’m projected to pay 9% of my salary for the next 25 years to repay my student loan.
This has to end.
A Restore Britain government will fix this injustice and will always put British men and women first.
This bloke really is weird. Blaming women for making a choice about who they want to date because most don’t want to introduce a 3rd party risk to their sex lives.
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Let me take you in to my shoes. I am a woman. Men are trying to deny that this is unique only to me, a woman. Men are demanding to share my sexed spaces, demanding access to my daughters shared spaces, demanding language be amended to that they can share the thinsg only women can do by erasing the word woman and its meaning, demanding to compete in sports that are segregated by sex for a very good reason; men and women are different. The Supreme Court ruling reinforced all of the things that men have tried to erase.
Go use your own facilities, play in your own sports, do the things that nature intended and stop trying to steal women's.
