Trains
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
Buried trésor
Wherever French see merde, there’s someone over the Manche to appreciate a picturesque glitter
The end of the line?
Arriving at our destination
Hitting the buffers — when rail fails
Bold projections and frustrating results
Rail riddles — the complex practicalities of rail travel
The realities of rail, from the US to China
Tracking modernity — trains in the modern world
On the complex realities of rail
Going loco — the development of modern rail
How rail became an engine of modernity
Travel and terror — trains in World War Two
From the Western Front to the Holocaust
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
