Carry on cycling
Paul Salveson reports on a gentle cycling revolution gathering speed
Labour’s British Railways mark 2 is a dead duck
Back to the 1950s is no way to run a modern railway system, says Paul Salveson
What’s all this ‘red wall’ stuff?
Paul Salveson examines the myth of the Northern Labour Heartlands
Grim up North
Paul Salveson on the challenges of rebuilding the red wall
The break-up of Britain?
Paul Salveson surveys views of post-Brexit Britain
Northern Powerhouse puffs along
Paul Salveson on northern routes and the likelihood of HS2 hitting the buffers
Cold wind from the North
Paul Salveson on a different, more complex reality of northern working class
Northern Powerlessness
Paul Salveson on Tory vanity projects
One of George Osborne’s more interesting policy interventions was ‘The Northern Powerhouse’. For a while it seemed it might...
Worshipping Walt …200 years on
Paul Salveson on Whitman’s local legacy
One of the most fascinating influences on the early British
socialist movement was that of the American poet, Walt Whitman....
Government rail review
In the face of a failing rail system Paul Salveson puts an alternative plan
Chris Grayling’s tenure as secretary of state for transport has...
Scotland and the long game
Paul Salveson on Brexit conundrums and future scenarios