Yes, and there's no reason why HS2 couldn't have been delivered to the original timescale and budget. Most of the increases to timescale have been from political can-kicking; most of the in… (View Post)

One benign reason for this is that it is so much easier to write reports now than it used to be. There is some stat about the average amount of documentation that gets produced for a thing before and… (View Post)

I think SonofContrarian has been around a while. My assumption was that he was a reboot of Contrarian. Who was many things, but not, I don't think, a Putinbot. (View Post)

Looking good so far! (View Post)

Normally I'd agree. But this is a very, very low spec bit of kit. It tells the time, has a stopwatch and alarm, and lights up if you press a button. That's it. If the Chinese have managed t… (View Post)