A new road-building programme will drain money from essential services.
Category: transport
Top Dollar
Why is Top Gear, alone among BBC programmes, allowed to keep breaking editorial guidelines?
A Real-Time Experiment With Human Lives
We can now see what the impact of has been of the police decision to turn off Oxfordshire’s speed cameras.
Head-Banging for Britain
Here’s what we could gain by reducing the speed limit.
The Imaginary War
Government ministers have declared an end to hostilities that never begun.
Tory Boy Racers
The Conservative war on road safety has begun
Fast Train to Nowhere?
Before the UK commissions a high speed rail network, we should ask ourselves some big questions.
An Eruption of Reality
Has our society become too complex to sustain?
Bust-Up With Boris
I meet the mayor of London and have a good old ding-dong
Crash Landing
As BA reports massive losses, isn’t it time to scrap the airport expansion programme?
Scrap It
Pay drivers to scrap their cars? We might as well burn ten-pound notes in power stations.
Andy Harrison Challenged
In the fifth and final interview in the first series of fierce encounters with policy makers, I give the chief executive of easyJet the third degree.
Flying Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses’ right to fly?
The Open Veins of Wales
Dr Beeching helped turn the country I’ve come to love into an outpost of empire. Now his legacy can be reversed.
The Other Bail-Out
Another set of corporations is pressing for public money. Governments should let them die.
Travelling Light
Is the airship a viable alternative to jet travel?
The Last Straw
A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster
Fast and Loose
The anti-speed camera campaign is based on junk science.
An Agricultural Crime Against Humanity
Biofuels could kill more people than the Iraq war.
Beneath the Pall of Misery, a New Movement Is Born
The climate camp at Heathrow is materially different from protests that have taken place in Britain before.