Yep, NATM. You dig out a small portion of the tunnel - say, 120 degrees, for a few feet, perhaps put mesh up, and then spray shotcrete (a type of wet concrete) on the wall to strengthen it. Although … (View Post)

That's an important question: in a federal state, what powers should be centralised and common, and which should be up to the states? Isn't it a similar question to the one that started the… (View Post)

Incidentally, I watched a 2018 film yesterday, Cutterhead. A 90 minute horror-drama film set in a tunnel boring machine in Denmark. It is remarkably good, and uses darkness, claustrophobia and sound … (View Post)

That was well after Covid struck. We're still recovering from that 12 to 18 months - politically and fiscally. (View Post)

That may be true, but Johnson had less than a year before Covid struck. After March 2020, pretty much all of government was (rightly) focussed on that. Blaming the failure of 'levelling up'… (View Post)