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“WHAT a way to run a railroad” making a mad mess of what should by nature be an orderly system has been a metaphor for screwing stuff up since at least the 1930s. The phrase probably began with an advertisement for Admiral Cigarettes, which used the slogan while showing a signalman in his cabin so contented with his smoking that he ignored two trains running towards each other on a single track below. But what we are doing with the railways now isn’t a metaphor for idiot contentment. It is idiocy. Let’s start with some symptoms. Damian Green is Tory MP for Ashford and was Theresa May’s “First Secretary of State” effectively deputy prime minister in 2017. He had to give up his ministerial role after a journalist accused him of sexual harassment. The alleged misbehaviour was arguably less shocking than many Commons cases. ....