Christian Wolmar Articles

Tramping the streets of Richmond and North Kingston during a chilly November has been a far more heart-warming experience than I expected when I was selected as Labour’s parliamentary byelection candidate a couple of weeks ago. Up and down the constituency, there is a...

It is that time of the electoral cycle for announcements about spending in the future which will not actually be the responsibility of those in power at the moment. It is a hardy annual of pre-election periods and, as Michael Dugher, the new shadow secretary of state...

The franchising system for the railways collapsed last summer following the West Coast debacle and huge resources are currently being thrown at it by the Department for Transport in an attempt to rescue the process. Consultants – effectively anyone who has been...