Thursday, 8 December 2016

J'accuse Chris Grayling and Andrew Allner

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The Brighton Belle was famous for its kippers. Laurence Olivier would take a leisurely breakfast back to his home in Ashurst in Sussex on ...
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Monday, 28 November 2016

The first divorce because of the rail scandal?

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It is almost exactly six months since I had a conversation with a member of Southern Rail's staff on a station near where I live, and it...
Monday, 21 November 2016

Do we really want the BBC to be completely unbiased?

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There is no doubt that, just at the moment, voters tend to want change. Perhaps that is too obvious even to mention, except that it happens ...
Monday, 14 November 2016

When you find yourself in a dark tunnel, don't go backwards - hurry towards the light ahead.

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Listening to the radio a few days ago, I heard an American interviewee said that he could not believe Trump was president, I was suddenly ca...
Monday, 7 November 2016

Why I'm not wearing a poppy this year

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The extraordinary furore about whether or not wearing a poppy is political, brought to us thanks to Fifa, sort of obscures the main issue fo...
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Thursday, 3 November 2016

It isn't the lack of trains, it's the lack of truth

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Most of this blog first appeared last night on the New Weather blog ... It is a peculiar aspect of the Southern Rail fiasco that so many o...
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Monday, 31 October 2016

Small isn't just beautiful, it is now rather urgent

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I have not disappeared, except into the nether world of half-term. But I have managed three posts elsewhere, which have peculiar links betwe...