Uber and Lyft’s claims their services reduce car ownership in US cities is debunked in a new study

Uber and Lyft have touted their ride-hailing companies as ‘car-cutters’ by reducing the number of vehicle ownership in US metro areas, but a new study finds the claims are far from the truth. A team from Carnegie Mellon University uncovered, on average, a 0.7 percent increase in personal vehicles after the two firms unleashed drivers … Read more

The memoirs you mustn’t miss: Mountbatten debunked, Humphrys unleashed, and Diana uncensored

THE MOUNTBATTENS: THEIR LIVES AND LOVES by Andrew Lownie (Blink £20, 400pp) THE MOUNTBATTENS: THEIR LIVES AND LOVES    by Andrew Lownie (Blink £20, 400pp) Everyone of a certain age remembers where they were, 40 years ago, when they heard the news that Lord Mountbatten had been assassinated by an IRA bomb. In this impressively well-researched … Read more