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Nick Boyd
Sep 26, 2026
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Two in one day - you lucky, lucky people. I don’t want to flood you out, but the GP in Baku is on today, and I know not all of you find it as fascinating as I do. The sheer investment in a tiny piece of tungsten with a small piece of electronic circuitry attached could easily have cost a million quid, and that’s without paying for the people developing the sproggle-thratchit.

What is it with it Mayor’s like Burnham and Khan? Why do they want to play The Fat Controller at any opportunity? As I slept through a rail delay, Khan announced that, despite an overall £14bn deficit for TfL, he had got into bed with Unite, the union, and

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