Unions

Jon Bright (London, OK): This poll was taken to mark the start of the Telegraph's "Call Yourself British" campaign (did newspapers always do this much campaigning?), of which more later. Apparently 69% of the English want to keep the union together, but only 18% of us believe it will survive indefinitely - over half thinking that it might only last for the next 50 years.

Jon Bright (London, OK): As someone who takes the bus into work, I suffer only the knock on effects of the 2,300 person RMT strike which has shut down most of London's tube network: buses are (much) fuller than usual of people looking (much) more pissed off than usual.