The Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, has revealed new train designs for the nationalised Great British Railways. By next spring, a train looking like a nursery school project will be arriving at a station near you.

According to Alexander, the Union Jack-based design supposedly ‘represents a new railway, casting off the frustrations of the past and focused entirely on delivering a proper public service for passengers.’ As far as its appearance is concerned, it would have been better if it was not so much on time, as cancelled entirely.

The design is an advertisement of failure

The physicist Wolfgang Pauli once rejected a student’s thesis, saying ‘It’s not even wrong’. He meant that to be wrong would at least put it in the proximate region of being right. That’s not the case here. No

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