With train reliability at a dire low, passengers forced to pay extortionate fares and often overcrowded carriages, few could deny that the railways are broken.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: After wheeling out the heavy artillery to promise the biggest boost in defence spending for a generation, Rishi Sunak was on manoeuvres in Germany yesterday.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: China is not just any country. It is the ultimate surveillance state, obsessively watching its citizens and spying on the rest of the world.
A socialist mayor ordered the National Conservative conference to shut down - but Brussels authorities really objected to Right-wing politicians like Nigel Farage gathering to exchange ideas.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: This is a welcome boost for the monarch himself and his concerned family. But anyone with a compassionate bone in their body will feel a huge sense of relief and joy.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Rishi Sunak 's pledge to spend billions more on defence in the face of chilling global threats is hugely significant - and to be warmly welcomed.
After a painful spell on the ropes absorbing blows from Labour while simultaneously fending off bizarre mini scandals within his party, Rishi Sunak is finally throwing some punches.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: What is this country coming to when a Jewish man trying to cross the street in his home city is prevented from doing so by police for fear of upsetting a mob
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: In a thoughtful but bold speech, the PM said there was a 'moral mission' to coax the economically inactive back to work.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: If the findings of a devastating new poll today are even partly accurate, then the Conservatives are indeed heading for a historic, even existential, defeat.
On Sunday, 534 migrants crossed the Channel to claim asylum here - the highest number this year. As winter gives way to spring, the small boats are back in force.
The world had been waiting with deep foreboding to see how Tehran would respond to Israel 's air strike on its consulate in Damascus, killing two Iranian generals and five other soldiers.