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Time to boycott Addison Lee
John Griffin the Tory donating boss of Addison Lee (presumably a distant relation of Nick?) is clearly on the crazy ...
Greening gets a taste of her own medicine from ATOC
Having been rapped on the knuckles in my one ever (short) conversation with Justine Greening, I take some pleasure from ...
Hello third runway, goodbye Ms Greening
The revival of interest in government circles on a third runway at Heathrow is fraught with difficulties for the Coalition ...
Armed cops mistake
It's bad enough having armed cops in Parliament, airports and outside embassies (and the US ambassador's residence in Regent's Park ...
Network Rail learning the ropes
The difference in reaction over the Network Rail bonus row between last year and this year. Last year, Philip Hammond ...
Greening gesture politics
Justine Greening's idea of going along to the Network Rail members meeting to cast her vote against the bosses' bonuses ...
Panorama a sad shadow of its former self
Looking at Monday's Panorama programme again was a dispiriting experience. It had all the faults of modern TV documentaries with ...
Mystery over tunnelling costs as DfT tries to manage media coverage
One of the big mysteries of yesterday's HS2 announcement was how the Department had pulled off the trick of adding ...
Northern line extension begs questions
One of the most curious aspects of the Autumn Statement was the fact that of the promised rail improvements, the ...
The scandal of voodoo economics
The 'research' carried out to justify opposition to Westminster's new night time parking restrictions has got me so enraged that ...
Marsham St muddle over fares
Justine Greening's attempt to soften the impact of the rail fares rise by reducing it to 1 per cent above ...
Superhighway scheme needs rethinking
After hearing of the terrible death of a second person at Bow within a few weeks on the cycle superhighway, ...
Boris and Ken agree at last – shamefully
Don't you just love to hate Westminster Council? Britain's richest council which gave us the Lady Porter gerrymandering scandal has ...
Hammond accounting methods did not make sense
The conventional wisdom on Philip Hammond was the overused political cliche that he was a "safe pair of hands". The ...
Will Greening be Greener
It was always likely that Philip Hammond, clearly seen as a Tory rising star, would get the first big job ...
One million jobs claim is a disgrace
A few weeks ago I wrote in my Rail column (https://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/2011/08/rail-676-dishonest-arguments-by-both-pro-and-anti-hs2/) about the dishonest arguments being pushed by both sides ...
Heathwick idea a sign of desperation
The Department for Transport has been leaking suggestions that a high speed rail link between Heathrow and Gatwick would improve ...
Amtrak’s clunky service needs reform
I'm back in America for a book promotion tour and yet again I am appalled at the inefficiency of Amtrak ...
Chiltern’s novel approach to first class
Chiltern is launching its new 'Mainline' service between London and the West Midlands, with loco hauled stock, a simplified fare ...
Boris bike extension still leaves big question
Boris Johnson has announced plans to extend the cycle hire scheme westwards as well as eastwards, and confirmed that Barclays ...
