A pedant who has just checked the OS map notes: actually, the boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire above Winscar reservoir at the top of the Don appears to be the watershed between the rivers Do… (View Post)

Why would they want a faster rail link from Manchester to London? Well, as I keep saying, because it would bring investment and jobs to Greater Manchester far in excess of what improvements to bus se… (View Post)

Also worth noting that tunnelling is pretty easy - and therefore cheap - in the North of England. We're largely on sandstone, which is very easy stuff to tunnel through but also (unlike the muds… (View Post)

If Levelling Up is a thing - and you accept that connectivity is greater in the south east than in the north - you need to be spending more on connectivity in the north than in the south (assuming yo… (View Post)

My first thought was Aberdeen too! And though I knew what he meant, I still spent a while working it out. I rather liked it, though. A nice rhetorical flourish. And it works if you mean Wirral-Doncas… (View Post)