Monday, 27 February 2017

Can you ever use slavery as an analogy?

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Being beaten up on twitter concentrates the mind wonderfully and, although I wasn't badly beaten, I have been thinking about what I clea...
Monday, 6 February 2017

Which is worse? Confused trains or confused truth?

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Sir Humphrey appears to be alive and well and living at the Department of Transport. I find it really pretty astonishing that nobody there s...
Monday, 30 January 2017

People who build walls get forgotten or derided by history

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When I was a reporter in Oxford, I discovered a file of photos - in the Oxford & County Newspapers amazing press library - of the old ...
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Monday, 16 January 2017

A DIY guide to the No-Trains?-No-Show! passenger strike

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"We are the people of England, that never have spoken yet..." G. K. Chesterton, 'The Secret People' "It looks ...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Join me for a small bit of civil disobedience - with cake...

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I'm certainly not a conspiracy theorist. Quite the reverse in fact. But the bizarre way that the poor put-upon passengers are being pres...
Wednesday, 4 January 2017

How Gandhi could win this for rail passengers: a proposition

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A few days after Christmas, I climbed with my family up to the old motte and bailey castle that crowns Truleigh Hill on the South Downs. On...
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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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