Sunday, April 04, 2004

Splendid rant on the rails

Nick Cohen is in mid-season form in today's Observer:

"The trance-inducing quality of the privatised rail system comes from the randomness of the enterprise. It is so capricious it appears beyond the control of human agency and all but beyond the comprehension of the human mind. All you can do is look on with mouth agape. Dadaists, surrealists and others in the twentieth-century avant-garde tried to achieve the same effect, but nothing they did matched what the Major administration created and the Blair administration perpetuated."

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