High Speed Rail Today’s announcement of the proposal to build a high speed link, up to 250mph it seems, between London and Birmingham as the first leg of an expanding network is one of the best transport announcements since WWII. All parties are in favour. There is some jockeying for position and the Tories, with an […]
Education The Tories have announced a policy of changing the leadership of 75 failing schools within 100 days of taking office. It is a good move and could play well with voters. Unfortunately Labour has a similar plan but according to Ed Balls even bolder. It is also true that Labour have introduced the radical […]
Afghanistan David Milliband, the Foreign Secretary has just made a speech in the U.S which was peppered with anxieties and caveats about political progress in this troubled country in which we have no business to be. However since we are there and our brave troops are dying almost daily, we need to know that all these clever strategems […]