Public Transport
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
A nation of motorists
Metropolitan journalists do not appreciate how the nation travels
See it, say it, sorted
The slogan is not only vulgar, but an implicit lie
Like Wotan driving the storm
What it’s like to fulfil a boyhood dream on the footplate of a classic steam locomotive
The Tories have a nostalgia problem
Modern leaders must focus on modern problems
Scrapping for space
Nick Cohen says hamfisted Covid road closures are dividing opinion
Saving Face
Like a home-made mask, our tolerance is wearing thin
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
