The case for HS3

The Deputy Prime Minister is calm and reasonable. Much of Britain is, too. So why isn't he popular?

The scrapping of the west coast mainline franchise is the real political story this week. Relations between ministers and civil servants are in jeopardy

Psychiatric drugs restored Nia's sanity and destroyed her beauty, and she doesn't mind

Jeremy Clarke discovers that John Prescott has not made the trains run on time