And when all those trafficked students go home they remember Britain as the country that scammed them. Great for British soft power. (View Post)

Some of the impetus for HS2 came from people using the much delayed HS1 (opened 2007) and naturally thinking, "why don't we have trains like this across the rest of the country?" I gue… (View Post)

I think there were some national speed limit roads that became 20mph too. The logic seems to be that, if there was a house on the road, then it was a residential road, and all residential roads shoul… (View Post)

The small number of Republicans with the moral courage to do the right thing, such as Liz Cheney, show the rest to be cowardly hacks or gormless goons. Mitch McConnell is particularly culpable as he … (View Post)

America as a country has some pretty big advantages - access to most of the resources it requires domestically, no threat of invasion, for example - that make it well set if it can avoid falling apar… (View Post)