Articles

Still time to change trains

Labour should stop panicking about the rail crisis and accept the challenge, says Bernard Hughes. It could change the current system without losing political face. The last decade has been one of very few certainties in politics. Yet railway policy was one of the few areas in which you thought you knew where you...

No logo, no solutions [from 2001]

No Logo has won plaudits a-plenty for exposing the activities of our corporate rulers. But, asks MATTHEW BROWN, is it really as radical as it’s made out? Branding big business is big business these days. In this age when image is everything a change of identity is seen as the fix-all solution for any...

Back to Euston

When the Euston Manifesto was published six months ago it was hailed by some as a new development in politics. BERNARD HUGHES wonders if they are right. The Euston Manifesto was not originally launched with a public meeting, a press conference or any of the other traditional trappings. Instead, it appeared with little fanfare...