How Twitter distorts messages
I caused a right old Twitterstorm last weekend by tweeting that as a healthy 70 year...
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Rail 899: HS2 arguments are fundamentally dishonest
One day there will be a superb book to be written about the shenanigans over the... -
My March newsletter: the mystery of the driverless car Ponzi scheme – and is it ‘termini’?
A quick newsletter as I am deeply buried in my latest book, Cathedrals of Steam, which... -
Rail 898: Beeching cuts are not going to be reversed
This is one of those rare times when the fact that this column has to be... -
Rail 897: My love affair with Crossrail
Here is the news: Crossrail is happening. Yes, of course it is late and the most... -
Letter to The Times: HS2 is the wrong scheme
I detect that, like me and indeed Boris Johnson, Danny Finkelstein instinctively wants to support HS2,... -
Johnson’s HS2 bind
December’s election result was both good and bad news for HS2. Boris Johnson is facing a... -
Rail 896: A decade that was not all progress
The start of a new year, decade even, is obviously a time to both reflect on... -
The new battle of Jericho
(pic by permission, Andy Ffrench, Oxford Mail) Here’s a prediction for my second blog of the... -
January 2020 newsletter
I am starting the year as I mean to go on, with a new newsletter for... -
Rail 895: Brexit will be done, but what next? And Mumbai’s amazing metro to be
So it’s over. Brexit is going to happen and the Conservatives will dominate politics for at... -
Delights of transport scored nul points
The Labour manifesto was incredible. In the true sense of the word, meaning unbelievable. It was... -
Rail 894: Devolution brings new impetus to Welsh railways
Wales has often been the forgotten part of the UK, attracting little attention or media interest.... -
The level of homelessness is a crisis
The first in my new blog reflecting matters mostly other than transport – though I will... -
Rail 893: the unanswered questions on HS2
HS2 is the biggest infrastructure project ever to be built in this country. It is, too,...
