In which case HS2 should have been built from the north southwards. I pointed this out on this site a decade ago and speculated that it would be cancelled once the London-Birmingham commuter line had… (View Post)

Blaming the greed and incompetence of HS2 implementation on the government is likely to have agreement from both the pro HS2 and anti HS2 sides. (View Post)

He's right though. WFH has changed all the calculations. As has TEAMS - certainly in my experience the number of people coming to my workplace for meetings has fallen by over half since covid. (View Post)

If you want to pour endless billions into the NHS then it has to come from somewhere. If you want people to be paid to stay at home then it has to come from somewhere. I wonder how many of the people… (View Post)

I suspect there's a mentality that rural living should be banned for everyone apart from holiday homes for the rich and a servile class of agricultural labourers on modern latifundia. (View Post)