Transport
The welfare line
George Osborne proposed an attractive idea this week: that spending on state benefits should be diverted into new infrastructure in…
Flying scared
Added security flummery at airports does nothing to make us safer. In fact, it may do the opposite
McBess
My husband was surprised by quite a bit when we travelled by Underground in London the other day. Although he…
A mystery in the middle lane
I am convinced that when I took my driving test in 1983 I was asked by the examiner, ‘What lane…
Barometer
Our first winter Hopes will not be high for a big haul of British medals in Sochi, but we have…
Stop that cab!
It’s time to end the archaic privileges of London taxi drivers
Barometer
The test of a wave Waves measuring 27ft from peak to trough were seen off Land’s End as the stormy…
The real luck of the Irish is that they recognised the folly of the boom
My man in Dublin calls with joy in his voice to tell me ‘the Troika’ — the combined powers of…
High-speed fail
A year ago the electoral strategies of the two main parties seemed set. The Conservatives would stand as the party…
The human condition in a scuffed yellow line
My preferred route from the Times’s offices in Wapping on to the main road takes me across a precinct then…
Not so much a property bubble, more an opportunity to improve London’s transport
Everyone —including me, if I’m honest — has been talking about a new property bubble. But is it for real?…
High Speed 2’s no-fly zone
From Edinburgh airport there are more than 45 flights a day to London. And, I imagine, the same number back.…
The line to nowhere
The government’s high-speed rail plans will never be implemented
A touch of class
Usually it is annoying when you have to board an aeroplane via a shuttle bus rather than an airbridge. The…
