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London Underground is to stop calling its customers ladies and gentlemen as a favour to the Algebra Community (that untidy mess of letters), who don’t always know which sex they are on any given day. The Tube’s alternative misses a splendid opportunity to salute that archetypal Londoner Sidney Balmoral James, Mr. ’Ancock’s sidekick, by getting the staff to call everyone ‘Mush’ without fear or favour or discrimination.