For the past five years, I've been using the west coast service every week, booking tickets 12 weeks in advance to get the cheapest prepayment, currently at 17 pounds. Even a letter from the general manager's office insisted on the fact. And then, hey, hey, you're quoting the media, once I get in touch with the virgins and find out. But how long can anyone support "god and the gun" at the cost of "bread and butter"? The meditationist populists who presided over the Roman empire knew that the populist mob needed material and diversion: bread and circuses. Angry twitter makes no sense to those who can barely afford to live with dignity, let alone tickets to the modern Colosseum to watch football matches.