My April newsletter: we need imagination to get out of this crisis; and a book offer for lockdown
Who would have expected that we would live in a time when it was illegal to...
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How Twitter distorts messages
I caused a right old Twitterstorm last weekend by tweeting that as a healthy 70 year...
Rail 901: Reaching into the unknown unknowns
Harold Macmillan used to say that what he was most worried about when Prime Minister were...
Rail 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...
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...
Book review: The luxury trains
Martyn Pring, Luxury Railway Travel, a social and business history, Pen & Sword, £35 There may...
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...
