Chris Moss

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Moss

From speed limits to scenic routes, these are the places where driving on holiday is the greatest pleasure - and the biggest nightmareWhat's your least favourite piece of road? The M6 near Birmingham? London's North Circular? The A303 when everyone in West London is bound for Devon and Cornwall? Would they be so bad if you were alone, able to take things at your own pace, and not quite so fed up with the same old schlep?

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Chris Moss

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4 weeks ago | morningstaronline.co.uk | Chris Moss

USING Liverpool as a prism to reflect on the “unmaking” of Britain is a departure from most treatments of the city. Liverpudlians have often represented themselves as apart from the nation, as internationalists and Atlanticists, as more Irish than English. They have been accused of exceptionalism over the years — as the funniest, proudest, most militant, most sentimental of English urbanites — and often accepted this as a badge of pride.

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Chris Moss

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4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Chris Moss

Whenever this town-focused series includes a city, prideful hollering ensues. The English distinction – not tied to a cathedral, a certain form of local government, nor population size – is whimsical, even if signed off by royalty. This selection of destinations is not about alpha cities. The smallest is ancient; the other two newly minted. None merit bypassing. CarlisleI arrived in Carlisle by way of the Cumbrian coast line and would later ride onward on the fabled railway to Settle.