Rishi should have suspended the whip from her a while ago for total insubordination and taking the piss. It’s that which was mistake, rather than rejecting her flimsy claim to a peerage. (View Post)

The RER from Gare du Nord to CDG certainly takes you through the shittiest areas. The Elizabeth Line from to Heathrow is much more edifying. (View Post)

As I’ve noted before, following the 80:20 rule, the UK would get max bang for buck by delivering proper mass transit for Glasgow, Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Sheffield, and Greater Birmingham. But it … (View Post)

I think that political debates are a rather tawdry politics-as-entertainment spectacle that obscure as much as they illuminate. Rather, both should be subjected to an hour or an hour or half of quest… (View Post)

I agree we need both. Bizarrely (given reputation), it’s a pleasure to drive on New York State highways, and it’s been a pleasure to drive on motorways here in France. But you usually overstate your … (View Post)