The chairman doth protest too much, methinks In an article in the Daily Telegraph, assistant editor Jeremy Warner makes a fairly blunt assessment of...
Roundup: This week’s news on HS2 Since Patrick McLouglin upped the cost of HS2 by £10 billion to £42 billion (over £50 billion if you...
From the Public Accounts Committee session The uncorrected transcript of the entire session can be read here. The Department for Transport and HS2 Ltd...
Public Accounts Committee to grill HS2 Ltd and DfT This afternoon, the Public Accounts Committee are holding an evidence session into HS2. This follows on from the damning...
Aspiring to Amber/red BBC News Report from Saturday 25th May confirming that the Major Projects Authority categorised HS2 as Amber/Red* status. This...
A year on: Damning MPA report on HS2 still secret A year ago, we reported that the Major Projects Authority (MPA) rated the HS2 project as needing ‘urgent action’...
Government announce mad rush to spend money quicker on HS2. Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced that the Government plan to introduce a ‘Paving Bill’ for HS2 in the...
Train fares rising One of the many assumptions which underlie the HS2 Ltd’s case for a new high speed railway railway is...
HS2: NEF raises questions that need to be asked HS2: Neutral organisation raises questions that need to be asked Margaret Hodge chairs a New Economics Foundation debate on HS2....
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...