February 2007

In praise of Virgin Trains

On Friday night, a Virgin Pendolino train from London to Glasgow was derailed at high speed…
Bank boss gives it all up to sell Arsenal programmes (perhaps)…

Alliance & Leicester boss Richard Pym surprised the City yesterday by announcing he was stepping down…
“May I marry your daughter?”

Interesting article in The Guardian today posing the question whether men planning to propose to their…
Cycling around Tetbury and Fosse Way

I enjoy The Guardian’s Country Diary, which happily sits amongst comment and letters about nuclear power,…
The plane that fell to earth

Can you imagine an airline that killed one passenger in every 385 that it carried? That…
A winter’s tale: the BBC’s southern bias

Last week’s snowy weather in parts of Britain proved once again that nothing is news to…
A glimpse of 1970s Cardiff

I found this wonderful old photo of Cardiff today. It shows Queen Street, the Welsh capital’s…
Roald Dahl: a brilliant museum for a great storyteller

If you think of a museum as a dull place, think again. The nearly new Roald…
Scotland v Wales: trench warfare not rugby

There have been better games at Murrayfield. Come to that, there have been better games on…
I predict a blizzard

(UPDATED) Britain’s railways are closing down. Snow is forecast overnight and the rail network is getting…