As some point, Xi will start to take an interest in what’s just over his northern border. Lots of minerals there, would be a shame if anything happened to them. (View Post)

Sending one of the military’s single most valuable human assets, trained over a period of years and at extortionate cost, to serve on the front lines of the meat grinder. What could possibly go wrong… (View Post)

Whoops, and after they’d made a rather large fanfare of having cleaned up the river, then made it the centrepiece of an otherwise dire opening ceremony. They’ll say they got unlucky with heavy rain i… (View Post)

I don’t know about the A27, but the A303 has been top of the agenda for at least three decades now, and the HS2 link to Euston leaves a white elephant of a line that no-one actually going to London i… (View Post)

The new government will never have more goodwill than they do now, a month into a large majority. Yet they’ve actually been very timid with the annoucements, and made some basic errors such as cancel… (View Post)