What's going to happen?

A recent post by the Met Office caught my eye. 40% of UK citizens caught out by severe weather Kirknewton's "new" level crossing , installed in 2013, makes it impossible for pedestrians to cross the line when the crossing is down.  Most evening commuters arrive on the Westbound platform from Edinburgh, often to get to their cars parked in the station car park on the north side of the crossing.  If the crossing has failed - a frequent occurrence - such commuters may eventually seek an alternative route .  In bad conditions that could be 3km through the snow. After departing the village via the underpass, commuters would be navigating an unlit farm lane, probably by now buried under several feet of snow.  Kirknewton needs a permanent pedestrian crossing at the level crossing!

I think our democracy is broken. Not broken enough for this: China cuts children's online gaming to one hour Or this: Taliban kills Afghan folk singer in restive province ... but is it really so far from shrugging your shoulders at a system which ignores nearly 60% of voters and the terrible things that followed from 1930s Germany, Serbia, the millions who died in Stalin's prison camps and so many other times in history when people turned their backs? Make Votes Matter

The UK has open-banking legislation which allows regulated companies to ask you for authorisation to login to your bank accounts. They can then offer you services like analysing your spending to recommend ways to save money. Note that these sites are regulated but you should not take my word for it. Please get their registration details and input them at the UK FCA site to confirm for yourself they are still currently legal to conduct this type of business in the UK. Snoop You'd think the name would put some people off. Snoop does what it says. Has a look into your every transaction, summarising them by what it knows about the payments and, for example, suggests an energy provider with a better deal. I like the fact that Snoop summarises spending, in away the normal bank statement just does not help with. However Snoop also displays things like how much I spent with a particular ISP since Spring 2019. I'm not sure what the relevance of those multi-year summaries are, except to...