Christian Wolmar

The plan to raise motorway speed limits to 80 mph, launched to much acclaim at the Conservative Party Conference, does not look like such clever politics following the M5 disaster in Somerset and last week’s release of figures showing road deaths rising for the first time in five years. Although there is no evidence that speed was the main cause of Friday’s disaster, reports from witnesses that they saw cars ploughing ...

Dear Ms Greening, First off, congratulations in your rapid rise to a Cabinet level job and I hope, after reading this, you won’t be regretting your decision to accept  the post. However, I thought in a spirit of helpfulness, I would set out a few isshoos (as Tony Benn used to call them) on the railways that you will be facing over coming months. I’m sure that your civil servants will have ...

Don't you just love to hate Westminster Council?  Britain's richest council which gave us the Lady Porter gerrymandering scandal has always been so naked in its greed that its almost impossible not to admire their honesty. The latest shenanigan is, of course, the council's intention to start imposing parking restrictions in the evenings and sundays which has got everyone with a swanky car or a Jeremy Clarkson book on their shelf ...