The Sunday Times:
On a runway and a railway to nowhere
28 June 2015
Infrastructure is the nearest thing in modern politics to motherhood and apple pie. Everybody, on left and right, can agree that more and better infrastructure is what Britain needs. Unfortunately it is also the thing that governments, including this one, are hopeless at delivering. ... A start would be to take the politics out of infrastructure, as recommended by the London School of Economics Growth Commission. Only an optimist would believe, however, that Britain's failing to think big and plan big can be overcome any time soon.
This article was published in The Sunday Times on June 28, 2015
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