So, what you're describing here is a problem of success - high passenger demand. Which requires more train paths, rolling stock, and infrastructure investment. Exactly the things nationalisation is p… (View Post)
Yes, such arguments are often responded to with "it couldn't be worse that what we have now" or "it couldn't be much worse than so and so" but that's just a failure of imagination… (View Post)
It will certainly not provide a better service. What it will do is make central government a constraint for funding through the DfT, which essentially means the Treasury. Such pressure as there is wi… (View Post)
Of course they wanted to make her a Bishop. They knew she'd move heaven and earth to defend and protect the institution. Whatever the cost. (View Post)
The "UN" is full of vested interests, lobby groups and brutal power politics. It's not the nice international democratic rational body that everyone thinks it is. In this case, it tells you… (View Post)