Also, the casual reader (like me) wouldn't have known who Akshata Murty was but clearly knows who Mrs. Sunak is. (View Post)

FPT: @Richard_Tyndall - while I'm an enthusiastic backer of HS2, if you offered the Midlands and North £100 billion (I don't know if you picked that number out of thin air, but the cost env… (View Post)

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)