Workers' Liberty

It seems that a big cheese manager, keen to bolster staff morale, was careless enough to describe the Piccadilly line as the "workhouse" of the Underground when he surely meant the "workhorse".

The workhouse, might we remind him, was a hated feature of the 19th and early 20th century Poor Laws, where people who had fallen oon hard times were separated from their families, paid a pittance and made to work their guts out until they died.

Which, of course, is nothing like the Piccadilly line, or any other part of London Underground, whatsoever.