From the C18 to the C20, Britain was extremely good at building transport infrastructure. In the Georgian period, 1100 private companies laid out and maintained 22,000 miles of tolled roads (‘turnpikes’), giving Britain the best road network in Europe.
Every season it’s so so so weird this, are people in Wolverhampton incapable of behaving themselves? Come to Anfield, you can have a bevy where you like with full colours on display and have everyone in them boozers chatting to you about the game
However well intentioned, when you abandon literally all observed experience of how towns thrive & prosper, when you assume that new technology changes humanity & its basic needs & wants then you are left with insanity. The tragedy of full fat traffic modernism in a few seconds.
From that awful BBC article on HS2.
This is absolutely ludicrous.
Sunak’s transport advisor basically implies that HS2’s main benefit is speed.
To clarify, the person responsible for advising the PM on transport didn’t know the purpose of the UK’s biggest transport project?!
Would leave Gakpo out the squad on Tuesday, leave him here and make him watch 3 days worth of videos on yellow cards to stop counter attacks in the 72nd minute being sound.
@_nic_beuret_ The reason people like me get really annoyed by this stuff is not that it’s fun to troll the Greens, it’s that you are genuinely slowing down decarbonisation and progress towards net zero. It really is that simple. Do better!
What would happen if D-Day was going to clash with your TV interview? Or if Kabul fell while you were on holiday? Or if a pandemic struck while you were trying to finish off a book on Shakespeare?
I’m standing for a stronger, fairer Cardiff West.
That’s why I want to return home to Wales and is why I am standing as the @UKLabour and @WelshLabour candidate for Cardiff West.
I would be privileged to have your vote at this election. If elected, I will be a strong advocate for Cardiff West in Parliament.
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Words do not do justice in explaining just how important ABC has been in changing the Labour Party for the better.
He has been central to addressing so many of the challenges the Party has faced.
I am truly elated that he will get a chance to do that for the country too.🌹🌹🌹
A Night Czar who'll blame anything for the dire state of London's club and venue scene except licencing is one who knows her real job is sucking up to the Mayor | my latest for @Spectator_LIFE https://t.co/hDKDCN7ohW
I don't want to write about Simon Jenkins. You don't want to read about Simon Jenkins. But yet, the Guardian keeps letting him make these awful, awful arguments. So here (again) is why he is not just wrong, but wilfully ignorant https://t.co/KiJ82DegyY