Once you exempt a lobby group it is virtually impossible to claw it back. You saw the fuss caused by withdrawing a pointless perk from a few thousand farmers over the summer. Now imagine the same wit… (View Post)

But even metros in cities in Spain are built at about a tenth of the cost per mile here. https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-cheaply/ I'm afraid it all comes back to the worst… (View Post)

Rubbish. There are loads of positive things to say about leaving the EU. Just off the top of my head: - saving £20 billion+/year in gross contributions - no idiotic Common Foreign or Security Policy … (View Post)

On the water industry, here is some good news, though I know posting bad news is much more fashionable. A Yale University study ranks the UK 1= out of 180 countries for drinking water and sanitation … (View Post)

That's all true of course but the main problem with the fund suggested is that the government is extraordinarily poor both at choosing which infrastructure projects to deliver, and in delivering them… (View Post)