This is terrible. For you, for us, for the BBC. It was the right thing, the brave thing, to do. It is a tragedy that you had to do it.

Member of the old London audience here: A perfect storm of compounding factors
- not in London 5 days a week, which means:
- Adding the train cost (time & money) to a mid-week show
- can't really afford to go to pub before / after or have dinner as part of the evening.

Even if I hear about it.

I've had a boox onyx note 5c (Android 15, colour eink, emr pen) for 10ish days. I got it for distraction free reading and cross app note taking and it seems pretty good so far.

When you sit down and do the maths you suddenly stop wondering why brexit happened or why Reform are doing so well when everything they say is nonsense.

Doing something even though it makes no sense is clearly a core part of our cultural identity.

It's like this everywhere all the time. Pile upon pile upon pile of nonsense creaking under the weight of history and tradition and fudge.

Prince Andrew being in a stately home rather than on remand makes no sense.

How very British.

So let's do that again. 3052 / 11.2 is 272.5. So if you use it for 5 days a week, then you have to use it for 55 weeks a year, but as you don't have a DeLorean, you can't.

But wait. 12 pounds isn't the price if you use contactless. That gets price capped to 11.20 if you use TfL barriers, which you have to use.

But of course, you don't. You probably travel 5 days if you commute. So that's 50 weeks of the year. But you won't use it for 5 days for 50 weeks. You probably don't commute for about 4 weeks a year because you have 28 days of statutory holidays, including bank holidays.

The annual is 3052. You have to travel 254 days for that to be worth it: 36 weeks if you travel 7 days a week.

An anytime paper return ticket is not a ticket you can easily buy. They closed the ticket offices to save money.

12 pounds a day is what you would pay if you bought two tickets with contactless. So you have to travel for 7 days for this to be worth it.

The example is Watford Junction to Clapham Junction. A 40 minute trip around the edge of central London.

Weekly: £76.30. Claiming a saving of £38 on 5 tickets.

The saving is based on buying a paper anytime return ticket every day: £22.85.

Those of us who use the trains today, 50 years later, with this system more or less still in place, would find this amusing, but we're too busy doing the maths or accepting the big 33% savings badge on the train company's website to notice.

Let's do the maths.

Sir Noncealot