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Take the slow train
Tom Chesshyre on the joy and rattle of Spain’s local lines
Amtrak Joe
Tom Chesshyre on the railroad buff in the White House
Decaying delights
Tom Chessyre on the glory of obscure railway museums
Anoraks at half-mast
Tom Chesshyre on the death of a train-spotters’ paradise
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
Hell on wheels
Tom Chesshyre endures some mercifully brief encounters
Track rate
Tom Chesshyre has a soft spot for railway hotels
Storylines
Tom Chesshyre finds hidden tales on the platforms
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
All aboard!
Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
