Driving the construction through a garden of remembrance having previously guaranteed its safety is hardly 'appeasement'.

Botched idea, botched financials, botched execution: even the cancellation was botched. Still, the (foreign) contractors got their contracts and the politicians got their bungs, and that's what matters...

- it even has a bench. I could ask for nothing more.

On the plus side the lettering appears to be raised, so it won't take long with a hammer and chisel to get it off once The Orange One meets his inevitable disgrace.

As someone who couldn't even master "Chopsticks", I'm a lot more impressed than Jeff is 🤩

Again, I agree. If they'd only started building it at the other end...

I agree. Sunak didn't go far enough with the HS2 Gravy Train cancellation but the current government have missed the chance to cancel it altogether (better option) or make it fit for its original purpose.

Erm: wasn't it Rishi Sunak who said that?

Absolutely with you on that.

I wish I could believe he knows it: but I have the sinking feeling that he really beileves he is rescuing the world and can't understand why everyone can't see it. Orher people who regard themselves this way get put in padded cellc...

Oh, to be an invisible daemon perching on his pillow and whispering in his ear all night...

Interesting: and they suggest it would be better known as Simulated Intelligence. So, SI it is for me from now on.

"toxic" and "incompetent"? News to nobody except those inside Deform, it would seem.