The stupidity of the British HS network is that it is / was supposed to be a series of terminal stations. Birmingham Curzon Street*. Euston. St Pancras. Leeds. Manchester. For Manchester the idea was… (View Post)

Monday and Tuesday I travelled on the NSL-Zuid in the Netherlands. Multiple sections of high speed line which tie into the existing network at stations (e.g. Rotterdam Centraal). Which means big swoo… (View Post)

Historians will note that the civil war had already started by this point. Declaring elected officials to be seditious traitors is pretty far out there as far as declaring fellow citizens to be your … (View Post)

Spend money differently. Crime costs money - we are all paying for that. Spend the money on combatting crime as opposed to the cost of crime running rampant. Same with teachers. We can't afford … (View Post)

Crime is a perfect example of where Truss was right in that the Treasury have broken the country. We can't afford to fix law and order, so we have to put up with the cost of crime. Instead of pa… (View Post)