Sorry reader, it is difficult to avoid Brexit at the moment. I’ve just spent three days at the European Transport Conference in Dublin where it was hard to avoid the B word, even though everyone is pretty exasperated by it all.  I am, as regular readers know, a strong Remainer but a couple of the presentations did expose some of the reasons why hostility has grown towards the supranational...

At one of the numerous Labour party conference fringe meetings on transport, a junior shadow transport minister said ‘Rail renationalisation is the centrepiece of our transport policy’. Now you might think that as a longtime opponent of the way that the railways were privatised and a critic of the subsequent structure, I would be delighted at this statement. Not so. Don’t get me wrong. I remain convinced that renationalising...

Well dear reader, you deserve a break. So do I. We’ve all been inundated with Brexit,  Leavers, Remainers, Boris Johnson and Operation Yellowhammer for what seems like years and in the rail industry it has been just as frenetic, with the Williams Review, collapsing franchises, declining performance, daft ministerial statements and doubts over HS2. So it is time for something different, for one column only – no mention of...