1 April 1, 2020My April newsletter: we need imagination to get out of this crisis; and a book offer for lockdownWho would have expected that we would live in a time when it was illegal to...
1 March 22, 2020How Twitter distorts messagesI caused a right old Twitterstorm last weekend by tweeting that as a healthy 70 year...
0 March 22, 2020Rail 901: Reaching into the unknown unknownsHarold Macmillan used to say that what he was most worried about when Prime Minister were...
0 March 10, 2020Rail 900: Has the franchising question been answered at last?Things are too busy and exciting in the rail industry to spend the whole of this...
3 February 29, 2020Rail 899: HS2 arguments are fundamentally dishonestOne day there will be a superb book to be written about the shenanigans over the...
8 February 28, 2020My 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...
4 February 15, 2020Rail 898: Beeching cuts are not going to be reversedThis is one of those rare times when the fact that this column has to be...
1 January 29, 2020Rail 897: My love affair with CrossrailHere is the news: Crossrail is happening. Yes, of course it is late and the most...
3 January 24, 2020Letter to The Times: HS2 is the wrong schemeI detect that, like me and indeed Boris Johnson, Danny Finkelstein instinctively wants to support HS2,...
3 January 21, 2020Johnson’s HS2 bindDecember’s election result was both good and bad news for HS2. Boris Johnson is facing a...
2 January 15, 2020Rail 896: A decade that was not all progressThe start of a new year, decade even, is obviously a time to both reflect on...
7 January 10, 2020The new battle of Jericho(pic by permission, Andy Ffrench, Oxford Mail) Here’s a prediction for my second blog of the...
3 January 3, 2020January 2020 newsletterI am starting the year as I mean to go on, with a new newsletter for...
0 January 1, 2020Book review: The luxury trainsMartyn Pring, Luxury Railway Travel, a social and business history, Pen & Sword, £35 There may...
1 January 1, 2020Rail 895: Brexit will be done, but what next? And Mumbai’s amazing metro to beSo it’s over. Brexit is going to happen and the Conservatives will dominate politics for at...