HS2 costs soar
26 June 2025
Britain’s railway network needs the capacity that HS2 was supposed to deliver. The latest review says little new and doesn’t address those needs.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Fix Hammersmith Bridge!
25 February 2025
Hammersmith Bridge in London has been closed to vehicles for six years. The latest delay is blamed on steel shortages.
Maintain the integrity of Royal Mail and Britain
31 January 2024
A recent Ofcom report sets out the poor state of privatised Royal Mail and spells trouble for the future of an integrated postal network. The post workers’ union has strongly criticised this, but industry and the wider public need to take up the cause.
Government delays key rail and road projects
14 March 2023
Transport secretary Mark Harper has announced delays to much needed transport projects. His plans have attracted criticism from industry and unions.
Infrastructure delays pile up
28 January 2019
An independent report from KPMG published last week found that the delayed Crossrail project is eating up cash at the rate of £30 million a week.
HS2: station plans unveiled
Designs for two new stations which will form a key part of the HS2 rail plan have now been unveiled.
How market madness is throttling broadband
Britain could have led the world in fibre broadband. Instead, hostility to nationalised industries and blind faith in the market shut development down – and are still holding back the country’s productive forces…
Osborne eyes local government pensions, again
12 October 2015
The new National Infrastructure Commission has less to do with planning than with stealing money from workers’ pension funds to do what the government should be doing anyway, and isn’t.
Capitalist destruction
Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, has written another challenging book. In this one, the Canadian author and journalist shows how capitalism is destroying our environment.
Bumpy roads ahead as ‘new spending’ turns out to be cut
24 December 2014
The nearly £6 billion announced by the government for maintaining local roads over six years is less than half the money needed to deal with the backlog, says the GMB.