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There are almost a million children in the Gaza strip. They're innocent too, unless simply being born Palestinian is a crime. Many of those children will die in the next few days directly because of Israel's actions. There won't be as many photos, but the deaths will be horrific nonetheless...

The positive cost benefit of HS2 is *exactly* where it all falls down. That's precisely where I came in. Have you read the any of the dissenting opinions. This one is well researched and clearly stated, and from someone with access to the data and no axe to grind... It's a little odd how you...

It's horrific from both sides. Hamas killing women and children and taking civilians hostage - clearly the actions of a terrorist group. Israel openly violating the Geneva conventions by indiscriminately targeting civilian infrastructure and in effect putting 2.3 million people into a state of...

That's just the 4.7bn overspend that you didn't count, if you divide it by 31million households. The full cost, per household, using your analysis, £3200. Three grand, from every household in the UK just for HS2. Hmm. Back to the original question then, is 100bn good value for money or could...

We didn't stop spending on COVID because a lot people were dying or at risk of death or serious illness. HS2, is not Brexit, and cannot resolve a pandemic. Your basic argument now seems to be that we need HS2 no matter what the cost. I don't agree, surely we've done this to death now?

Let's compare apples with apples, eh. How much of that 1.18 trillion went on infrastructure investment? The actual spend so far, is £24.7bn. And in case you'd missed it, it's nowhere near finished and everyone accepts that even when it is, it's not coming in anywhere near the original...

Jesus, where did I say that I'm against large-scale infrastructure spending. Put me in charge and we'll have an awful lot more renewable energy investment, and maybe the odd gigafactory. Boris can finally have his forty new hospitals, and we need a lot of schools building and fixing. We'll...

I don't trust the Tories any more than you mate. I've always been of this opinion in regards to HS2. Of course Sunak is probably lying about using the money elsewhere, but I still think the whole thing is an enormous waste of money. Not big numbers, *vast* numbers. No other infrastructure...

And that's me done on HS2. I appreciate others differ but for me it was flawed and hugely over-expensive from the start, with original cost/benefit justifications based on completely made up figures. And then it got worse.

I don't know how many times I need to say that I've no objection to infrastructure spending, until it sinks home. Who is saying cancel all infrastructure projects? The cost of HS2 isn't "high", it's massive. 100 billion pounds. I don't think people get how big that number is. Over twenty...

The idea that a clearly fascist state, Russia, is invading a neighbouring democracy to rid it of other fascists, is for the birds. That said, there's no doubt that Ukraine has issues with the far-right too, as do a number of Eastern European countries, like Serbia. We're not exactly perfect...

Can I just put this out there. Start from scratch, and assume you've got 100 billion to invest in the country. Consider what's going on in terms of the disparity of wealth, the lack of housing, the state of schools, hospitals, and prisons, and the climate crisis, and tell me that you still...

But the point is that it didn't make the case to *everyone*, unless you cherry pick only the people that agree with you. Plenty of other independent assessors questioned the value then and since. But like you once the idea that a gold-plated, fastest railway ever built, was the way forward...

Is everyone who disagrees with you a crank? You don't half get emotional over this sort of stuff which doesn't really help your argument. This obviously isn't Brexit, and it's not just a few Tories in the shires. It's 100bn pounds worth of investment that an awful lot of people from the...

If you think HS2 isn't already making some people very rich, you've not been paying attention. And why are you banging on about Brexit, it's completely unrelated unless there was a referendum on HS2? Politically HS2 is neutral to me, it's simply a matter of the vast cost on a huge white...

It's literally not everything I'm asking for. I want the money to be spent, but intelligently. The case does not stand up for HS2, never did. And that's me speaking as one of the few people in Coventry who live near enough to the thing to benefit (very slightly). As opposed to anyone from the...

My plan would start by not literally making up the numbers to justify a vast white elephant that sucked the the juice out of every other potential project, and I'd take it from there. I assume from your response you disagree, so which bit of the article specifically do you dispute?

That would have been better, but even better than that would have been to kill the fecking thing from the start. The whole cost/benefit analysis used to justify HS2 was the biggest crock of shit ever. It was literally fictional. I'm all for spending money on infrastructure to stimulate the...

Gambon was pretty incredible in "The Singing Detective" too, for anyone who remembers that.

I don't know what the odds are of us making the playoffs again this season, but I'm pretty sure they're nowhere near the same as you spontaneously materialising in Borneo. Personally speaking, I think it's far too early to say how this season pans out. If I had absolute belief that there was...