British Rail
Great British fail
Why state control won’t fix our railways
Beeching’s brutal legacy
The wounds of our lost railways still linger
What’s ugly, basic and has no walls?
The ExploreStation initiative has produced a nowhere-design which serves nobody
Back to the future
The new Great British Railways should abolish the garish sweet shop designs of today’s trains and look to the glorious liveries of the past
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Hang up on Britain’s blight boxes
Outdated regulations are keeping thousands of redundant phone boxes on Britain’s streets
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected