Michael Williams – Page 26 – Railway & Travel writer

Michael Williams:
author & journalist

Michael is a journalist, academic and author – writing, blogging and broadcasting on railways and the media. He is also a travel writer, having covered the world for a variety of publications. Read more…

The Trains
Now Departed

Michael Williams’s most recent book The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen excursions into the lost delights of Britain’s railways is published by Arrow Books. Find out more about Michael’s other books, including ‘On the Slow Train’, ‘On the Slow Train Again’ and ‘Steaming to Victory’.

Trump news puts another nail in the trunk of dead-tree media

November 6, 2024

IT’s long been the case that the daily print media cannot hope to stay abreast of a big news story when it breaks overnight. Never has this been truer than this morning, when the papers largely failed to get to grips with the biggest news story of the decade – the astonishing ascendancy of Donald Trump. The only paper I saw that got close to the news of him winning the presidential vote overnight was the Daily Mail, which managed […]