The great irony being, inevitably, that it’s mostly the Treasury’s fault that HS2 is so expensive in the first place. They create the very problem they complain about & then use that expense as a… (View Post)

A native french speaker won’t sound the t on the end of pret. (Also, it’s prêt à manger but the accents would just confuse I guess.) (View Post)

The irony is that the original intent of the term “institional racism” is to give the individuals in question a get out. It says: “look, we don’t think /you/ personally are racist, but the institutio… (View Post)

No, it was the Treasury that insisted on shifting all risk in the construction contracts onto the contractors, meaning that they promptly turned around and got quotes to insure against said risk (no … (View Post)

I suspect the cost of HS2 has been roughly doubled by Treasury shenanigans alone. If we were serious about infrastructure investment in this country then it wouldn’t cost us any where near as much. (View Post)