Sigh. It was not possible to build the northern leg first because without the southern leg, there would have been nowhere for the trains to actually go to. The northern section of the WCML is congest… (View Post)

And they probably all were more knowledgeable in your field than the DfE are about education... (View Post)

Well, to some extent he did. But when you consider not only how many people never get to be PM, and how nobody from a clearly defined ethnic minority (leaving aside, for the moment, the complicated q… (View Post)

Indeed. Sometimes it leads to pneumoconiosis which kills the person instead. Bottom line is, you get asbestosis, it will lead to complications that kill you in some way usually in 10-15 years (unless… (View Post)

To be fair to Sunak (and I was angry with him too) it was Johnson and Shapps that doomed HS2 by scrapping the north eastern leg to Leeds and HS3 from Newcastle to Liverpool, without which HS2 couldn&… (View Post)