‘Passenger populism: Can Louise Haigh fix Britain’s broken railways?’

The world’s most expensive soap opera, High Speed 2, has dominated the news cycle in recent years, so one might be forgiven for overlooking the slightly obscure plan for Britain’s railways from the Labour Party’s Shadow Transport Team. Anoraks like me, on the other hand, pored over it with a great deal of interest, finding in the proposals a pragmatic, cost-effective, consumer-friendly blueprint for government that will resolve at least some of the policy blunders of the last 14 years. …