Ahead of the HS2/HS3 announcement On Monday, flanked by David Cameron and George Osborne, Sir David Higgins will attempt to restate the case for...
Preparing the ground for Monday As you may know, Sir David Higgins will be making his announcement about HS2 Phase 2, and may well...
PMQs: Cameron makes out ‘Devo Met’ Northern Powerhouse report supports HS2, when it doesn’t. Yesterday at Prime Ministers Questions, David Cameron praised a report from the Royal Society’s City Growth Commission, which as...
From the Archives: Grand plans and utopian visions This article was originally published in November 2011: “We should look sceptically at grand plans and utopian visions” said...
Judge rules legal action demanding publication of secret HS2 report will happen, eventually. In court on Monday (23rd June 2014), Mr Justice Singh granted permission to the Information Commissioner to proceed with...
What do the Hybrid Bill Committee think of HS2? Now the HS2 Hybrid Bill has passed second reading, the petitioning period has started, and you have until 23rd...
HS2, The Cart Before The Horse This was originally published on South Heath against HS2 – you can view it here. Increasingly HS2 looks...
HS2 Environmental Statement – More people leave form blank than support HS2. Two days after the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee trashed the environmental credentials of HS2, the Independent Assessors of...
Floods could sink HS2? BBC News Chief Political Correspondent Norman Smith suggests that HS2 could one of the biggest casualties of the floods. From...
Use of ‘War Veto’ to block publication of HS2 reports is illegal, say Stop HS2. Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin has today exercised a veto on publication of a report pertaining to...