From the Archives: Justine Greening, Victorians versus Today This was originally published on 28th August 2012: shortly after this interview she was reshuffled to Secretary of...
Transport Committee tell DfT to ‘spin harder’ on HS2, as report provides a ‘cheerleading whitewash’. Following the increasing political rhetoric concerning HS2, the Transport Committee have ignored their previous concerns about HS2 to deliver...
Letter to new Under Secretary for Transport. Letter to Robert Goodwill, new Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport, sent last week. Dear Mr Goodwill, Congratulations on your appointment as...
Penny Gaines’ evidence to the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill This is Penny Gaines’ personal evidence to the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill: it is published on the Committee’s...
Busting the HS2 budget Today’s Independent reports on the HS2 Ltd board minutes from December 2012, and adds more information about HS2...
Bumping up the budget? Some Parliamentary questions and comments on HS2 – and more hints that the cost of HS2 is set to...
When is a decision not a decision (Part 1) Q: When is a decision not a decision? A: When a government lawyer says it isn’t. It’s just over a year...
Local Campaigners Meet Transport Secretary A group of local campaigners against the proposed high-speed railway between London and the West Midlands (HS2) have been...
More delays for HS2 as ‘cracking on’ becomes ‘cracking up’, but no—one tells HS2 Ltd. Today (December 5th 2012), Chancellor George Osborne announced as part of his Autumn Statement that; “We’ve already set out...
The legal challenges Cameron didn’t want start on Monday. Just a fortnight after Prime Minister David Cameron called for cutting access to justice relating to planning, wanting to...