I read that and was nodding along without engaging brain much until the bit about levying 10% of the estate of people who throw themselves under a train to compensate for the disruption they cause. That's such a heartless thing to say. I contemplated writing to the Standard to complain (shamefully, haven't got round to it). I was on an East Coast main line train once which was delayed for hours after an incident of that nature. I was impressed that not one person in the vicinity said (out loud, anyway) how annoying it was. There was a sombre silence after the driver told us why we'd stopped and then a grim, very British silence as we all contemplated how late we were going to be, but (I'd like to think) we were all also thinking of the families and friends of the man concerned, and his own torment leading up to that. That is as it should be. Nobody does something like that just to get attention. Journalists can be scum sometimes.