At the European Parliament “I am ashamed of how badly we use public funds and of the fact that in Europe the fundamental...
PMQs: Cameron dodges the question, but says Brexit costs less than HS2. Today at the final Prime Ministers Questions before the EU Referendum, whilst the more interesting action seemed to be...
HS2 hits the EU Parliament On 15th December, HS2 was finally mentioned in the EU Parliament. Here is the speech made under the one-minute...
Carry your bags, sir? When HS1 was originally proposed the plans assumed there would eventually be a connection from HS1 to Milton Keynes,...
Will dropping the HS2 link to the Channel Tunnel break EU law? Following last weeks ‘HS2 Plus’ report from Sir David Higgins which proposed the removal of the proposed link between...
TGV in trouble – the French chicken comes home to roost This is a guest post by Madeleine Wahlberg. A recent full-page spread in a French newspaper Le Parisien1...
From the National Infrastructure Plan Ahead of today’s Autumn Budget statement, the Government published the National Infrastructure Plan, 2013. Here is some of what...
So, is HS2 ‘driven’ by the EU? So is HS2 ‘driven’ by the EU? This is the second of a series of articles about...
A message from a retired but formerly active trade unionist A number of trade unions published a letter in the Guardian last Saturday. Here is a personal response from...
The pack of cards begins to fall as the UK still scrambles to save HS2 By Madeleine Wahlberg Readers will have noticed that the launch of Phase two of HS2 was accompanied by the usual references...