Posts Tagged With: The Guardian
Stop these show-offs flattening our favourite places
Whether it’s high-speed rail links or apartment blocks, ordinary people’s lives are being ruined in the name of progressYesterday I heard a chilling phrase on the radio. The cost of HS2, the high-speed rail link, is £32bn “at current prices”. Help! Im… Continue reading
No fracking in home counties, village residents tell oil company
Cuadrilla’s plan to drill test well in West Sussex leads to furious reactions at public meetingAfter earthquakes in Lancashire and tales of poisoned water and flaming taps in the US, “fracking” for gas or oil in the English home counties was never like… Continue reading
Greece races to tie up writedown deal before debt repayments fall due
Greece could default on debts if talks with investors break down and it fails to secure the next tranche of bailout cashGreece and its private-sector creditors are involved in a race against time to finalise a debt writedown deal over the next 48 hours… Continue reading
Preparation ‘haytch’: Justine Greening gives high-speed train a Dickensian feel
The transport secretary’s pronunciation of HS2 follows a political tradition of not listening to what you are saying or how you soundCharles Dickens’s birthday is next month, and let’s hope the Commons remembers him properly. He worked for Hansard, and… Continue reading
A high water mark: artists moor holiday houseboat on London roof
Vessel installed on top of Queen Elizabeth Hall on South Bank is open to the public for overnight staysThere are just a few things missing to complete the scene. Savage dogs, rusting engines from white vans plundered for parts, seagulls squabbling over… Continue reading
UK recession warning boosts hopes that Bank will pump cash into economy
More quantitative easing by the Bank of England is expected soon, as industrial production declines for two months runningFresh warnings that the UK started going into recession in the final quarter of last year have increased expectation that the Ban… Continue reading
Burma agrees to prisoner amnesty
Political prisoners may among those released as government signs ceasefire with Karen rebels in east of the countryAuthorities in Burma are set to release hundreds of prisoners in a new amnesty, in the latest step towards wholesale reform in the secret… Continue reading
Duchess of York charged in Turkey over orphanages documentary
Sarah Ferguson wore disguise to make 2008 ITV programme that Turkish politicians said was smear to derail EU bidA court in Turkey has brought charges against the Duchess of York over a controversial ITV documentary in which she went undercover to secre… Continue reading
‘Memogate’ scandal deepens as American accuser threatens to tell all
Mansoor Ijaz claims he will prove in Pakistani courts that ex-US ambassador Husain Haqqani offered to rein in militaryThe controversial American businessman at the centre of the “Memogate” scandal threatening to bring down the government of Pakistan ha… Continue reading
‘Devo max’ would make Scotland fiscally responsible – why does Cameron oppose it? | Simon Jenkins
Only a tribalistic craving for central control explains the prime minister’s urge to defend the UK against Scottish autonomyHere we go again. Ireland gone. Scotland going. Next is Wales, and then where? Cornwall? The Isle of Wight? There is no kno… Continue reading »