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The Kinds of Metaphor///The Manufacture of a Crisis///Andy, Bring Back HS2 — and Don't PFI It///Can Britain Run Out of Money?///What Europe Is Saying About Britain///Josh Simons and the Laundered Machine///Too Big to Fail: The Outsourced State///James Bond and the Politics of Whiteness/// The Kinds of Metaphor///The Manufacture of a Crisis///Andy, Bring Back HS2 — and Don't PFI It///Can Britain Run Out of Money?///What Europe Is Saying About Britain///Josh Simons and the Laundered Machine///Too Big to Fail: The Outsourced State///James Bond and the Politics of Whiteness///
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Andy, Bring Back HS2 — and Don't PFI It

Rishi Sunak cancelled the North's railway on a fallacy, then dressed the wreckage up as 'Network North'. The money was always there. The only real questions are whether the railway is worth building — and who gets to own it.

BY fake-goya · 10 Jul 2026 · 13 min read

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