Fine, sure, I hate crowds to, but they are also economic engines in a way that British stations just are not

I can go to “A Pret” when I travel from Marylebone next weekend - a station in the middle of London

We got lost at least three times looking for a specific restaurant in the basement of Hakata

It's also just incoherent? The author says focusing more on romance than adventure (this is based on a single marketing image btw), D&D will lose its appeal to teens because teens hate sex now. But the entire premise of the piece is that there's more young people playing D&D.

As a journalist you shouldn’t expect your emails returned you should be getting disaffected junior staff pissed and hoovering up dodgy office gossip and stained copies of memos

Honestly don’t just walk it in, do journalism

Possibly one of the biggest differences is just how much it functions as a third space, somewhere literally everyone goes to hang out.

So many school kids doing homework in various places and some you don’t even have to pay for.

Had 3 weeks in Kyushu in September, so good

It’s in alt text or should be

As one of those businesses, yes, it has been insane how much the rent has increased for a damp arch where it rains in one corner, while watching our neighbouring businesses close and their arches are now empty.

It is genuinely insane how intensely developed the major stations are in Japan

There’s a huge amount below this and probably just as much either side. 7-8 stories of *stuff*

The lesson of British infrastructure investment for decades has been that it's stuck in a toxic nexus of the treasury paying for it and then private developers reaping almost all the property value gains

Letting the railway share the gains as with HK MTR or post privatisation JR should be the norm

The beholder is just so happy nobody has noticed he’s going to ruin their days

Ha! Was looking for you there