Tuesday briefing: Can Andy Burnham beat Britain’s headphone dodgers?
Me again, back from the October school holiday (a week in glorious Wales, thanks for asking) and ready to hear your commuter woes.
The Guardian reports: Me again, back from the October school holiday (a week in glorious Wales, thanks for asking) and ready to hear your commuter woes.
Whether anyone hears him remains to be seen. For our prime minister, it’s “one of the most annoying things on public transport”: maybe you’re trying to work, or read, or you’ve finally got your kid to sleep, when someone starts blasting sound from their phone at full volume.
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