On the complex realities of rail
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart avoid train triumphalism in discussing the complex political and environmental circumstances that surround modern rail.
How rail became an engine of modernity
From the Western Front to the Holocaust
A golden age of trains, before a dark age for the world
On ebbing power of the political influencer
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
We should support workers who confront criminals
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
