Monthly Archives: January 2007

Railways that want to deter passengers

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 [...]

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New Year message

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 [...]

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    John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College, and has a DPhil from All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has been a director of NM Rothschild merchant bank and chairman of a quoted industrial PLC.
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