Oh I've just figured it out. OGH is taking a step back from PB because he's been called upon to run the country. (If only that were true...) (View Post)

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 operational c… (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)