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I’m not sure what that’s even supposed to mean. If I was left to be a kid at six I wouldn’t have gone to school. I’m also not sure why you think that your kids are too stupid to learn about history at six years of age.

You can’t blame anyone for thinking that the Tories are setting a trap for the next government. Then again Labour might be secretly delighted that the Tories are cancelling it so they won’t have to deal with it.

Rammed down their throats? Strange angle to describe education. So how do you talk about the abolition of slavery without talking about politics? It was a political decision after all. How do you talk about Windrush without talking about the politics? Politics that’s still going on by the way...

It’s difficult because we’re talking about huge sums of money but I’m old enough to remember all the same arguments about the M25. Can’t imagine navigating London now without it. We didn’t know at the time what great value for money it turned out to be, can’t help but feel that the decision to...

It’s the definition of impossibility. How can you talk about black history and not be political. Unless you want to write out certain parts of black history. Which just defeats the point.

Just to add that I do actually agree with the bite the bullet stance. Problem I have now if it gets cancelled they think that’s the answer to what was a badly managed project from day one that has just gotten worse and worse. The only real answer is manage it better from day one. The government...

Yeah but they’ll retain Boris’ old seat again so that’s really a win 😀

I was reading that the decision to “pause” the old oak to Euston leg is going to cost an extra £360M mainly because 2 tunnellers have to be parked. And the pause of 2 years will actually cause a delay of 3.5-4 years in total construction time which will push the price up again should a...

Pippa Crerar of the Guardian now claiming that Sunak is going to announce the scrapping of phase two in his conference speech.

The answer is do it right. Like other countries. I accept no two countries are the same for a broad range of reasons but for some reason we obviously pay over the odds. Just on the tunnelling excuse alone if we’d subcontracted the building out to the Japanese government they could tunnelled the...

It may be one reason but it isn’t the reason. Take just one of the main contractors Skanska for instance. Its turnover has grown by 25% due to HS2, which is fine, it’s a major infrastructure project, it would be naive to not expect that. But why has their profit increased by 60% in the same...

The tunnelling thing doesn’t really run true. Japan has just built a new line for the bullet train. Most of which is tunnelled and the cost per mile is £51M per mile which is just less than a third of what it’s costing in the UK to build HS2. One thing that doesn’t get talked about is...

Surely it’s the situation that has no grey area. Russia invaded under a false pretext and Ukraine is willing to stand against that. It really is no more complicated than that.

Yeah, I mean if you discount the foiled invasion that was going to be a 3 day walkover then yeah, aside from that no progress. I think in the first days even the most ardent supporters of Ukraine were not expecting Ukraine to be able to resist. All Russia has achieved is about 17% of the...

There’s plenty of evidence that Ukraine is close to cutting off Crimea. Most notably the recent attacks on the Naval base. If Russia can’t resupply its troops there it’s only a matter of time before they capitulate. Russias military is in disarray. They’re struggling for ammunition, they’re...

I never said that they had made huge gains this summer. That ain’t the gotcha you think it is. The key point is that Russia hasn’t made any gains and is in danger of losing the land bridge to Crimea. They’re dug in hoping for a “draw” that isn’t going to happen and could lose Crimea before Xmas.

Who on numerous occasions has said that the war will be over in 24 hours with a Russian “victory”. His record on this conflict has been so wrong at every turn he’s made his previous credibility irrelevant. He’s clearly out of touch.

Well. That’s just a detachment from reality. Ukraine made huge gains last summer. Russia used winter to dig in defensive positions and turn the front line into the most mined country in the world. Anyone who thought that Ukraine would make the gains this summer that they did last summer is...

Still can’t believe that people ignore their own eyes and feel Putin can be negotiated with in good faith.

Fine tooth handsaw then. Cut from the side you want to look best. Take long sweeping cuts applying just enough pressure, if you try to force it you’ll be more likely to damage the laminate and not keep the straight cut both sides.