Yes, and also the government shouldn't be placing its bets purely based on monetary expected return. Projects that are good bets purely financially can likely get backed by private investment an… (View Post)

My feeling at the time was that she also got some of the practical politics side of things very badly wrong (bringing people with you on ideas, party management, etc) and that it was that as much as … (View Post)

I read that as "a hurricane of mass resignations coming", which would have been more politically interesting... (View Post)

Also, let's not optimise for the aesthetics of the bird's eye view, since nobody except people looking at Google maps will see that... I suspect it looks a bit less sprawling and visually o… (View Post)

London to Edinburgh is about the same distance as Tokyo to Osaka, which works very well as a high speed train route... (View Post)