The Port Of Dover has asked to be privatised. It’s down to Dave and Nick to make the decision, but if they reply in the affirmative it means the prospect of it being owned by the French is very real indeed. Obviously this would be a travesty. I’m still...

Dear John, (well, Colin)It saddens me to have to say this, but I’ve been considering this for a while now, and something doesn’t feel quite right any more, and it looks like it’s over for us.  I can only imagine how hurt and upset you’ll be when you find...

Hello!  It’s Sunday again, and the 7 Reasons team are away for the day.  Half of the team is busy poisoning his friends and family with cookery, and the other half has managed to pick 4.2 kilograms more blackberries than he required and is wondering what the...

We were hoping to bring you a guest post by Tom Cruise this week, but sadly talks broke down when we couldn’t give him a more precise date on which he would receive his badge. Thankfully, we have found someone someone else who once considered a career in film....

You know how it is, you want chicken for dinner. That means you need to remove it from the freezer. It’s never that easy though. Is it?1.  First Trip To The Freezer. Sadly you don’t make it as far as the freezer. Instead, out of the corner of your eye,...

1.  Dimness. Lampshades dim the light in a room.  You knew that already, but no one ever asks why we want to dim the light in a room.  Why do we go to the trouble of installing a light and then surround it with a device that hampers its efficacy?  We don’t put...

You don’t have to be interested in the X-Factor to know about autotunegate or whatever it is called. I am the living proof of that. To be honest, I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Auto-tune is good. It makes things bearable. Just think how good life...

1.  What’s Missing? I saw this sign on a First Capital Connect train yesterday.  What do you notice about it?  Or, more specifically, what do you notice about the person depicted on the sign?  That’s right, First Capital Connect, you have a sign asking people...

Providing you are doing this properly, you will be reading this on Monday morning. And providing you are doing this properly, I will be in the car returning from V Festival. Which is why I am writing this on Thursday afternoon. And as I am writing, I am quietly...

In the final instalment of 7 Reasons Transport Week, regular guest poster Simon Best, brings a touch of old school glamour to proceedings by travelling on a sleeper train.    1 Novelty. Part of the fun of travelling by sleeper is its novelty. There are only four...

As a part of 7 Reasons Travel Week, we have decided to try something new.  Rather than writing this piece in a conventional location; a quiet atmosphere of consideration and reflection – or in the pub – it’s going to be written on the train during a...