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The hypocrisy of the Heathrow Nimbys

5 April 2025

9:00 AM

5 April 2025

9:00 AM

Some readers may have noticed that it takes rather a long time to get anything done in Britain these days. For example, if you added them all together, I wonder how many hours of Prime Minister’s Questions and BBC Question Time – under consecutive governments – have been taken up by a discussion of HS2.

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