How the government buried bad news on access to transport for disabled people
The day after the Autumn Statement can be an opportunity to bury bad news. The Government’s response to…
Transport
A People’s Railway for Scotland
A new report by rail expert Professor Paul Salveson, commissioned by ASLEF, the Co-operative Party and the Socialist Environment and…
Self-destructing Boris Johnson doesn’t know how much a tube ticket costs (and gets IQ questions wrong)
Bit of a nightmare appearance on LBC for Boris Johnson this morning – the London Mayor managed to…
Londoners should be wary of narrow market driven thinking
Boris Johnson’s proposal to close virtually every ticket office on the London Underground got relatively little publicity. Partly …
24 hour tube travel is great news – but Boris is using it as a smokescreen to cut jobs
There is mixed news for the 50% of Londoners who use public transport to get to work today.…
The case for a public sector
When Ed Miliband announced that a future Labour government would freeze energy prices for 20 months until the…
5 ways Labour can talk about the cost of living (without talking about energy)
It’s just over a month since Ed Miliband’s conference speech, and since then the media narrative has been…
The Labour Party cannot – and will not – give the Government a blank cheque for HS2
David Cameron is apparently confused about what job he’s doing. On Friday he seemed to say it was…
Ed Balls has “3 economic tests” for HS2 – here they are…
This morning I suggested that the Ed Balls approach to HS2 was eerily reminiscent of Gordon Brown’s “5…
The Great Tory Train Robbery
Under Boris Johnson, London commuter fares have become the most expensive in the world. Since he became Mayor,…
