There is however an argument that Beeching was broadly right in overview but usually wrong on the details. Gerry Fiennes' book "I Tried to Run a Railway" is superb on both the operatio… (View Post)

Yep. From the introduction to his new "Plan for Drivers": That's straight out of the "WEF/Soros are controlling our lives" conspiracy playbook. There is no plan in Oxford to … (View Post)

Cancelling HS2 to Manchester, during the Conservative Party conference in (checks notes) Manchester, is about the most Rishi thing it's possible to do. (View Post)

I see in the Grauniad that the "New Conservatives" group includes such sprightly young things as Bill Cash, Iain Duncan Smith, John Redwood and Jacob Rees-Mogg. This is obviously some stran… (View Post)

That’s a fair observation, but I think @NickPalmer’s LibDem friend’s point was possibly more about lending votes under FPTP. Labour and the LibDems aren’t in competition in any of the Oxfordshire sea… (View Post)