Paul Linford

While there was much to applaud in George Osborne's autumn statement, there remains a fundamental disconnect between the Chancellor'...

This week's Journal column, focusing on the long-running saga of the A1 dualling project and what it tells us about the need for greater...

IN terms of the political big picture, Chancellor George Osborne’s autumn statement on Wednesday this week may well come to be seen as a...

With the election drawing ever closer, it is hard to say which of the three stories which have dominated the political agenda this week will...

Among the stories to catch my eye this week was one warning that the £16bn Crossrail scheme to link East and West London may have hit a pote...

Much of the criticism of the Heathrow decision has centred on what it says about the government's environmental credentials, but there i...

Setting tribalism aside for a moment, I have to applaud the Tories for thinking outside the box and refusing to go along with the convention...

Do centre-left governments have any room for manoeuvre on tax anymore? Here's my column in today's Newcastle Journal. *** Aneurin B...

For this weekend's column, I returned to an old hobby-horse - regional transport funding. The launch of the new Eurostar terminal at St...

The ongoing debate on road pricing provides the main subject matter for my latest Week in Politics Podcast which is now live. A text versio...

The last time I posted anything on road pricing , I was urged to "get a grip" by esteemed blogger Tim Worstall who reckoned I wa...

Transport secretary Douglas Alexander - and, presumably, Gordon Brown - wants to have a debate about using road charging to reduce congesti...