Monthly Archives: January 2007

THE RAILWAYS DON’T WANT PASSENGERS The government’s original strategy for transport was to switch people from cars to trains. They inherited a fast growing railway, where for the first time since 1950 railway managers wanted more passengers and promoted their businesses accordingly. In the late 1990s use of the railways by both passengers and freight [...]

2007 is likely to be a year on constitutional struggle, as the bodged domestic reforms of the government together with the unwelcome advances of EU power cause friction in our body politic. The most likely flare point will be in Scotland, at the time of the Scottish election to their Parliament. If the polls turn [...]