A golden age of trains, before a dark age for the world
Rail travel in its inter-war “golden age” was not just Hercule Poirot on the Orient Express. Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss a time of innovation and state intervention and whether Benito Mussolini or Stanley Baldwin was better at making the trains run on time
Rail and the development of the USA
How railways conquered the world
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
On ebbing power of the political influencer
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
We are already endangering women and girls
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
