It seems odd to think that those motivated enough by money to become very rich - and who are willing to make the sacrifices that becoming rich necessitates - will be suddenly indifferent to money whe… (View Post)

Agree entirely (see my comment in the edit about eggs-in-one-basket syndrome!) To be fair, some thought has been put into this. HS2 started some sort of construction training academy with the idea of… (View Post)

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)