Published by UnHerd (19th October , 2024) The three-piece band was doing its best to lift spirits with relentlessly upbeat pop songs and bursts of oompah music as […]
Policy / Politics / Transport
A symbol of corrosive failure
Published by The i paper (11th February, 2019) Flying home on Saturday night from Denmark after reporting on another European nation demeaned by nativism, I flicked through a […]
Policy / Politics / Transport
Whoops – there go the railways, says Westminster’s answer to Mr Bean
Published by The Guardian (20th September, 2018) Imagine you were running a business and one of your senior managers left a trail of disaster in their wake. First, […]
Policy / Transport
Senseless fines driving rail passengers round the bend
Published by The Times (2nd November, 2017) I went to Hull and back earlier this month. My trip was for work so I let the train take the […]
Health / Policy / Transport / United States / World
The fat city that declared war on obesity
Published by Mosaic (13th October, 2015) & The Atlantic (14th October, 2015) When Velveth Monterroso arrived in the USA from her hometown in Guatemala, she weighed exactly 10 stone. […]
Economics / Policy / Politics / Transport
Forget the nostalgia for British Rail – our trains are better than ever
Published in The Guardian (August 16th, 2013) There is a weary predictability to the political choreography. Once again, it’s revealed, commuter rail fares are rising above the rate […]