The Wardman Wire

Transport / Travel

Stage One complete: A success
The Tories are often, and unfairly sometimes, accused of having no policies. While they are thin on set in stone policies in many areas, it has often been very deliberate. The first stage in the Cameron plan was to “decontaminate” the brand – which he has been pretty successful at doing. [...]

As the “rumble of hauliers’ discontent gets louder with warning of strikes ” I thought I’d take a quick look at what makes petrol so expensive:
When we pay for petrol and other oil products, we look at the price and then blame the garage for making it so expensive. But where does the money we [...]

Summer is well and truly here. It is official. We have had a couple of days of sun and no rain. And the bike rack at work is now overflowing with bikes.
Summer cyclists are the worst cyclists. Unlike people like myself who cycle every day - rain or shine, or even snow - these cyclists [...]

If you search Google for “Democratic Unionist Party” you get:

DUP.org.uk - 03:52
The most religiously fundamentalist of all the Unionist parties and the leading party opposed to the Good Friday Agreement. Supports the devolution of power …

David Cameron tells the BBC:

“There are still around 40 flights a day to Manchester although there is a perfectly good train service.
“We do need to try to have taxes in areas that would change people’s behaviour and have an impact, rather than just clobbering passengers, which is what Gordon Brown did when he doubled air [...]

There was a segment on the Radio 4 Programme “Yesterday in Parliament” this morning, of the House of Commons Public Administration Committee interviewing Tom Steinberg, the founder of the MySociety website.