Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Daniel Gooch: the Northumbrian who shrank the Atlantic

13th July 2026 Going Postal 0

At 21 he was building the locomotives for Brunel’s Great Western Railway. Then he took Brunel’s Great Eastern and used it to lay the first lasting telegraph cable across the Atlantic. This is the man [more…]

Public Waste & Private Thrift

29th November 2021 Emile Woolf 0

Veteran observers of economic folly have the advantage of experience. They are already familiar with the failed policies being enacted, yet again, by unprincipled politicians whose sole motivation is re-election. In the meanwhile these pillars [more…]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Daniel Gooch: the Northumbrian who shrank the Atlantic

Public Waste & Private Thrift

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