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A possible clue to what's going wrong is the Edinburgh tram system. In the 1990's there was a brief vogue for these modern revivals of what a hundred years before had been the standard form of street ...

I will take your word for it and will try to work this in as I go along. HS2 to Manchester and Leeds (and even Newcastle) did, I think, become a bit emblematic when the Northern Powerhouse scheme got ...

As an instance of these last two, consider what would have happened if we had started HS2 in Manchester and worked south, as my Lord Mayor Burnham demanded, rather than the other way round as the West ...

Napoli 2 Real Madrid 3

Two of the three titans, along with Man City, in action, Jude the Obscure (for us in the Premier League) making one, scoring a peach and generally running the show. (Modric i ...

I seem to remember that Lens attracted a fan club of Kentish fans who, with no-one except Gillingham to support, started to take the Eurostar from Ashford International to Lens TGV station every other ...

The two obvious uber-considerations are
1. the accelerating trend to working from home (and not-working at all)
2. the eco-stuff

which might appear to militate against Big Projects generally exce ...

The axing of northern HS2 is a good moment to review the general place of mega-projects in the British way of life. And since we are the most advanced country in the world, in the geriatric sense of b ...

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Lens 2 Arsenal 1

It's quite normal for clubs new to the Champions League to fare badly in their first season and fail to make it out of the group stage. After we thumped PSV I had assumed this didn ...

Dermot was asked on RefWatch whether he would have played on after learning the goal was in fact a legitimate one. He said the laws of the game would forbid him doing anything 'once the game had resta ...

Well, perhaps not always. There have been two decisive events in the Ukraine War so far:

1. Ukraine did not collapse in the first few months. Russia's war aims were thereby defeated.
2. Ukraine's ...

More headlines today about inernational support cracking for Ukraine, but is this the case? The Germans are now clearly leading the way in a very signifcant European-wide effort. Things have moved on, ...

Fulham 0 Chelsea 2

I hadn't realised that the aforementioned Jacksonville Jaguars are owned by the owner of Fulham. So welcome, NFL, to Craven Cottage. I hope he's better clued in than Chelsea's ne ...

Maybe you are right. I just can't see it. If anything Europe is more than ever enthusiastic to support Ukraine, the EU has already announced more than €70bn (£60bn) of military and civilian assista ...

I got a taste of the north-south rail divide for myself yesterday when seeing someone off at Heathrow, and while the HS2 brouhaha was kicking off at the Tory Conference in Manchester.

The Piccadill ...

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Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 619 Views: 105314	Forum: Politics Posted: 4:47 pm Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 619 Views: 105314	A possible clue to what's going wrong is the Edinburgh tram system. In the 1990's there was a brief vogue for these modern revivals of what a hundred years before had been the standard form of street ...
Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 619 Views: 105314	Forum: Politics Posted: 4:44 pm Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 619 Views: 105314	I will take your word for it and will try to work this in as I go along. HS2 to Manchester and Leeds (and even Newcastle) did, I think, become a bit emblematic when the Northern Powerhouse scheme got ...
Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 619 Views: 105314	Forum: Politics Posted: 2:25 pm Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 619 Views: 105314	As an instance of these last two, consider what would have happened if we had started HS2 in Manchester and worked south, as my Lord Mayor Burnham demanded, rather than the other way round as the West ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3640 Views: 501007	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:52 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3640 Views: 501007	Napoli 2 Real Madrid 3 Two of the three titans, along with Man City, in action, Jude the Obscure (for us in the Premier League) making one, scoring a peach and generally running the show. (Modric i ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3640 Views: 501007	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:36 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3640 Views: 501007	I seem to remember that Lens attracted a fan club of Kentish fans who, with no-one except Gillingham to support, started to take the Eurostar from Ashford International to Lens TGV station every other ...
Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 619 Views: 105314	Forum: Politics Posted: 8:10 am Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 619 Views: 105314	The two obvious uber-considerations are 1. the accelerating trend to working from home (and not-working at all) 2. the eco-stuff which might appear to militate against Big Projects generally exce ...
Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 619 Views: 105314	Forum: Politics Posted: 7:50 am Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 619 Views: 105314	The axing of northern HS2 is a good moment to review the general place of mega-projects in the British way of life. And since we are the most advanced country in the world, in the geriatric sense of b ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2064 Views: 363678	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:07 am Subject: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2064 Views: 363678	Black and Proud Explore our Black and Proud collection #BlackHistoryMonth Channel 4 email Wrong demographic, Mr Algorithm. I'm not black and I'm not proud. In fact I'm fed up to the back teeth w ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3640 Views: 501007	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:43 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3640 Views: 501007	Lens 2 Arsenal 1 It's quite normal for clubs new to the Champions League to fare badly in their first season and fail to make it out of the group stage. After we thumped PSV I had assumed this didn ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3640 Views: 501007	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:07 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3640 Views: 501007	Dermot was asked on RefWatch whether he would have played on after learning the goal was in fact a legitimate one. He said the laws of the game would forbid him doing anything 'once the game had resta ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1478 Views: 224106	Forum: Politics Posted: 3:46 pm Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1478 Views: 224106	Well, perhaps not always. There have been two decisive events in the Ukraine War so far: 1. Ukraine did not collapse in the first few months. Russia's war aims were thereby defeated. 2. Ukraine's ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1478 Views: 224106	Forum: Politics Posted: 3:41 pm Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1478 Views: 224106	More headlines today about inernational support cracking for Ukraine, but is this the case? The Germans are now clearly leading the way in a very signifcant European-wide effort. Things have moved on, ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3640 Views: 501007	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 1:45 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3640 Views: 501007	Fulham 0 Chelsea 2 I hadn't realised that the aforementioned Jacksonville Jaguars are owned by the owner of Fulham. So welcome, NFL, to Craven Cottage. I hope he's better clued in than Chelsea's ne ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1478 Views: 224106	Forum: Politics Posted: 1:23 pm Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1478 Views: 224106	Maybe you are right. I just can't see it. If anything Europe is more than ever enthusiastic to support Ukraine, the EU has already announced more than €70bn (£60bn) of military and civilian assista ...
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4282 Views: 574694	Forum: Politics Posted: 11:46 am Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4282 Views: 574694	I got a taste of the north-south rail divide for myself yesterday when seeing someone off at Heathrow, and while the HS2 brouhaha was kicking off at the Tory Conference in Manchester. The Piccadill ...