Author Archives: JAMC

The Participatory Society

How do you want to live? In many ways, all politics boil down to this. Often in life we find ourselves having to learn to live with the gap between our answer to that question and the reality of world … Continue reading

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Britain’s Railways: Expensive & Nasty

Discuss this post What’s wrong with Britain’s rail network? How can it be put right? Recent transport woes have found me pondering the UK rail network, which is fairly unusual in itself as I normally drive to work and only … Continue reading

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Why do slow drivers make us angry?

Picture the scene – an overstressed and underpaid office worker scythes through the Sussex countryside on a hot June evening. The window is down, the radio and air-con are on, the winding minor roads sweep through open fields and punch … Continue reading

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