His latest film is a precious, self-admiring and fatally misjudged serio-comedy about three brothers (Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody) who, to gain emotional healing and closure after the death of their dad, travel across India on a train that, at one point, zanily gets lost, having taken the wrong rail.
(They'd used the wrong rails in the first place, but that was ten years ago, so it seemed a bit unfair to mention it).
The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, deployed an ancient procedural device to derail the whole debate (on the grounds that it was on the wrong rails to begin with).
"You can wrong-rail," he begins briskly, "which is sending a train in the opposite direction of normal traffic.
By many accounts, the Long Island Rail Road has improved since the days when the preponderance of broken air-conditioners, delayed trains and surly employees spawned Web sites like www.ihatethelirr.com and nicknames like "Wrong Island Rail Road".
Because while Trump may mistakenly blame immigrants and Muslims for a variety of unverified problems, he isn't wrong to rail against a corrupt political class of politicians who no longer work for the American people, as well as their financiers.
It was always borrowing on the state's behalf, and if anything went wrong with Network Rail, it was always going to be taxpayers who would be on the hook.
Reacting to the news of the pay bonuses, Labour's shadow transport secretary, Maria Eagle, said: "With many passengers facing overcrowded services and too many delayed and cancelled trains, it is wrong for Network Rail to be paying out such large sums to its senior managers.
The key thing that New York did right and New Jersey did wrong -- moving rail cars to higher ground -- was a simple management decision, not a piece of long range planning.
But as anyone who has driven in this city knows, the naysayers are plain wrong and dedicated rail lines are the way to go for many of the city's most congested transit routes.
Otis White is right to urge "development of modern, high-speed passenger rail," but wrong to call Amtrak's long-distance trains "useless".
