GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - September / October 2022

Whose railway is it anyway?

Railways can be their own world. With good management, this can mean it’s easier to do things on the railways than in other parts of an economy. That should be a big opportunity for reducing climate emissions by getting passengers off the roads and out of the skies. But we must chnage the way we use rail networks to help people – and not to help the interests of empires and businesses which built them and run them now. This edition looks ats how we can make a start on this.

From this issue:

Zdob și Zdub is a rock band from Moldova. They wrote a song about a train journey for the 2022 Eurovision. Read how the song shows that Moldova is between two cultures, East and West.

• ‘We’re between cultures’ – the story of a Eurovision song

• Payback time: international debt and the climate crisis