Britain ground to a halt this morning as the transport systems lack of operational competence and depth was once again cruelly exposed. Speaking at a press conference in Downing Street, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: "We are doing everything in our power to ensure services, road, rail and airport...

A new set of postage stamps celebrates a century of British design icons — from the Mini car to the miniskirt. The Royal Mail stamps feature 10 different 20th-century design classics. They include the red double-decker bus, the Concorde supersonic jet, the orange-and-white Penguin paperback and th...

Neanderthal Man A bane of the regular commuter are the Neanderthal ignoramuses who insist on rudely displaying their genetic inbreeding by using other people’s seats on public transport as a footrest. Indeed due to lack of enforcement by transport operator’s many do this deliberately as a Yob ba...

Foster / Aston Martin "Green" Routemaster The competition launched in July to find a new Routemaster bus for London has found its winner. Well two of them. Warwickshire-based sports car maker Aston Martin, along with architects Foster and Partners, won the £25,000 prize jointly with Wiltshire bus m...

With surprisingly short notice, London Underground have canceled their busker scheme deal with Automatic Management. Set up in the days of the Livingstone administration, this was the attempt to impose order on the chaos of tubeway buskers. It took much of the romance out of the underground - busker...

I have a small (and slowly growing) collection of old issues of the wondrous Illustrated London News. I originally started collecting them as sources for research, but I actually find they are quite wonderful to read (although sometimes I think Victorians used magnifying glasses as the font is tiny)...

I'll get to the blog title later on in this blog entry. For now though, my day in London with Mena, and not even the amazingly shite train journeys spoiled it. Mm, the train journeys. On both my train to London and the return journey back home, I had to stand up because there wasn't any seats. I'm p...

wow i just got back from england. it was a great trip. i went to see a whole bunch of things! stonehenge, roman baths in bath, big ben, tower of london, concerts, everything that was out there! we even went to wales on the coast! and could stand up on the point and see beatiful country and great oce...

London was hit by the bloody fucking terrorists. :(...