Oh, absolutely: that was Sunakian / Treasury Brain vandalism of the worst sort. When you’ve spent the majority of the £ on a train line already, to cancel it in a way that guarantees you will never s… (View Post)

The question you should be asking is not: why HS2? But rather: why is it apparently impossible to build these other projects? I note in passing that a country which had built these other projects wou… (View Post)

It’s possible (reasonable even) to argue that HS2 itself was misconceived from the start. But the fact remains that rail transport in this country, both passenger & freight, would benefit greatly… (View Post)

But it is a significantly larger blast than previous photos would suggest - the impact crater is apparently 10m from the location of the flipped car & directly in between two grassy areas that we… (View Post)

At least one vehicle appears to be flipped over by the blast if you look at this video: https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1714560367714513400 Previous reporting stated that the areas around the… (View Post)