Christian Wolmar

Watching Alastair Darling sound the death knell for New Labour in his Budget speech, it struck me that never before has the Westminster Village, which I once inhabited, been so distant from the people it is supposed to serve. Darling, formerly of this parish, inhabits a world that is so distant from the one where the rest of us live that one can no longer trust anything that is being ...

I am not usually one to kick a person when he's down, but there is a certain enjoyment watching the discomfiture of Richard Bowker, the boss of National Express. And not just because he wrote a scathing review of my book, On the Wrong Line, which you can enjoy on my website.  It's also because Bowker represents everything that is wrong with the privatised railway, a man who pretends that ...