My name on here is a pseudonym. I was reading a biography of one of the Jessop clan when I joined PB back in about 2010. I decided Josias Jessop was more interesting than William Jessop, so picked th… (View Post)

I'm a bit confusled about it. £32.50 per mm would be £32,500 per metre. Or £32 million per km. Which would mean the 66km route would be a little over £2 billion for the survey work. That not onl… (View Post)

Matlock is incomparably different to when I knew it well in the 1990s; the new road through Cawdor Quarry has massively improved traffic. And traffic was always a major problem in the town centre. I&… (View Post)

Hamas and Iran are very different opponents, and Israel's aims will probably be very different. In the case of Hamas, depending on viewpoint, their aim may be to crush Hamas as opponents or to g… (View Post)

I'm far from convinced that we do do it much worse. We tend to ignore our successful projects and concentrate on our problematic ones, whilst lauding their successful projects and ignoring their… (View Post)