Anyone who has watched roads lobby dinosaurs placidly munching on their trunk road contracts even as Comet Climate Change approaches the Earth will not have been surprised by the Government’s decision to approve the destructive Lower Thames Crossing The road will add £9 billion to the country’s pointless debt mountain, investment which could have been used for acutely needed sustainable […]
Batting for Tufton Street
It’s funny, I searched in vain through Labour’s 2024 manifesto Change for any firm commitment to exterminate the country’s bat population, or at least any of the scarce, tiny, flying mammals that had the temerity to hinder Sir Keir Starmer’s passion to build “infrastructure” – but at least we knew what he regards as infrastructure. In his 2023 conference speech […]