HS2 isn’t that much more expensive for being designed for 350km/h instead of 300km/h. What made HS2 ridiculously expensive was 1) burying more than half the line between London and Birmingham and 2) … (View Post)

The weird thing about the MMT crowd is that a) their description of the economy is essentially correct (it’s just standard macro economics re-labelled) and b) it’s proponents instantly jump from “the… (View Post)

You can blame Osborne for the over speccing of HS2 IIRC. He turned it into some kind of demonstration of national virility, perhaps in order to get skeptical Conservative MPs to vote for it at all. F… (View Post)

That’s the problem isn’t it: If not Starmer, then who? None of the current crop of ambitious pretenders stand out as having the qualities required frankly. (View Post)

Usually (!) the jury decides on whether the defendant is guilty / not guilty of the offences charged & the judge then decides the sentence, which can then include any aggravating or mitigating ci… (View Post)