Delighted to announce that Sara Girvin has been appointed as the new Ireland Correspondent for BBC News. Congratulations Sara!

The gargantuan cost overruns on disasters like HS2 cannot be explained by error. They seem to be best explained by strategic misrepresentation, namely lying, with a view to getting projects started. transportwatch.wordpress.com/2023/10/12/why… #HS2

"A fraud against British people" "We were instructed to lie about the true cost of #HS2" say whistle-blowers. Today's Sunday Times

We’ve met Karim, a 12-year-old boy who was arrested this week by Israeli soldiers, while other Palestinians were being released. He showed us marks where he said he’d been manhandled, slapped and beaten, after a video emerged of him playing with a gun. Israeli police say all

"Mum, I'm in the interrogation room." We were filming with the family of 12-year-old Palestinian detainee Karim when they got a call from him that made his mother faint. ⬇️ Our latest piece from Ramallah is now on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=75UuAr…

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Christmas Eve - a great day to bury extremely bad #hs2 news. HS2 trains have always going to be running on the classic track from the outset. NOT a new phenomenon

#HS2, Birmingham to London, is now expected to cost £66.6bn (originally costed at £18bn). Sir Jon Thompson, the current HS2 "boss", confirmed this revised figure to the Transport Committee. The first train is unlikely to run before 2033. #StopHS2 mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

UK and US launch military strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen following attacks on shipping in the Red Sea bbc.in/41TTijE

Letter to today's The i Paper calls for the #HS2 scandal to be given the same treatment as #MrBatesVsThePostOffice

Gareth Williams Thames Water person spoken to today said this incident was entirely down to #hs2 tunnelling. Have you visited the Amersham household waste depot? Under water. HS2 Ltd say it's nothing to do with them haha. Farms between pollution incident and waste site under water for 1st time

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Joy ! To see #Gaza colleagues adnanelbursh Mahmoud Alajarami as well as Ashraf Madbouli #WorldServicePresents BBC World Service

Note: this is from an HS2 Ltd internal document and is in 2019 prices Cost of #HS2 could hit £66bn, according to management estimate ft.com/content/6ac54b… via Financial Times

The day the crowd turned on Ceaucescu, he was dead shortly thereafter. 35 years ago today.

As a wartime leader I’m sure our great Winston Churchill would be proud of ⁦Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський⁩ …

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Indeed. This remains a massively expensive, over budget vanity project

"Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is expected to tell Parliament on Wednesday that there is "no reasonable way to deliver" the railway line on schedule and within budget". #HS2 #StopHS2 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

#HS2 It's important to remember that campaigners pointed out BEFORE the green light was given to the original scheme that £32billion was not a realistic budget. Now it's more than £100bn for a fraction of the line promised. £100bn to Birmingham is a total scandal. @StopHS2