0 January 5, 2021January 2021 Newsletter: it’s not all gloom but….I have not worn a suit for a year. I hate wearing suits but I am...
0 December 9, 2020December newsletter: deja vu all over againThis is the newsletter that goes out to subscribers every month. If you want to subscribe...
0 November 11, 2020November newsletter – Covid crisis – and book offersThe second lockdown has just started and I see little way out of this crisis for...
1 October 2, 2020October newsletter: new books and the bloody virusesSorry I have missed out a couple of months, due to holidays and overwork. But I...
0 July 14, 2020July Newsletter: The self-destruction of the rail industryThere has been pretty much only one theme to my recent writings – in The Times,...
1 May 16, 2020May newsletter – one thing is certain: driverless cars are not the answerApologies for slight lateness, but I have just delivered the manuscript of my latest book, Cathedrals...
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...
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...
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...
3 December 30, 2019Delights of transport scored nul pointsThe Labour manifesto was incredible. In the true sense of the word, meaning unbelievable. It was...
1 June 26, 2019Johnson: an unsuitable candidateI rarely find the time to do blogs but watching Boris Johnson’s performances on the media...
0 January 15, 2019My speech on driverless cars at the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, 15/1/19There is something extraordinary happening out there in relation to driverless cars. But it is not...
2 December 5, 2018The most radical transport authority The City of London has become by far the most radical local authority in Britain....