Trains
Blood on the tracks — rail transport between the wars
A golden age of trains, before a dark age for the world
Tracks across America
Rail and the development of the USA
Steam powering progress
How Victorian railways were the engine of modern technologies
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
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
Track rate
Tom Chesshyre has a soft spot for railway hotels
Back to the future
Trainsplaining a new world order
Storylines
Tom Chesshyre finds hidden tales on the platforms
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
