That's what happens when promises meet reality. Costs rise and timescales lengthen. I'm old enough to remember when PBers would angrily deny that HS2 could cost more than £30bn. (View Post)

The fundamental issue isn't the size of public sector pay increases but rather the relationship of public sector pay increases and public sector productivity increases. (View Post)

There's also a fundamental difference between those things that will lose money later and those things that will make money later. Many of the things claimed to be of the second sort are actually of … (View Post)

Political journalists certainly do. A mistake made by the media was to have their political journalists do most of the talking. The scientific and medical journalists usually had much more worthwhile… (View Post)

I suspect Jnr has all sorts of personal issues. As does Vance. Both for understandable reasons. But it can affect decisions. (View Post)