The Latest Breaking News from HS2

I don’t know about you, but I’m suffering from chronic metaphor fatigue. There is nothing that goes horribly wrong, falls apart, arrives late, costs too much, delays millions and undermines our sanity that cannot be co-opted as a metaphor for Britain’s dysfunction in 2023. Everyone wants to control the narrative…

Former HS2 chairman fires back at ‘short sighted’ ministers and says axing northern leg would be ‘scandalous’

More than one mile of a branch line in Buckinghamshire between Aylesbury and Princes Risborough is being realigned.

Comments from Paul Johnson of Institute of Fiscal Studies come as Downing Street hints at delay to work on second phase of rail link

If you have occasion to take the Elizabeth line from one of the Ealing stations you will soon pass a large area of London that might come as something of a surprise to you. Old Oak Common is slowly being turned into what the Government likes to call “a new…

Despite his appalling legacy, the ex-chancellor appears to have a lot of unquestioning journalist pals

Letters: Alex Ramage, John Dunn and Mark Sullivan respond to Larry Elliott’s call to scrap the high-speed rail project

The two boring machines will be blessed in a ceremony using a statue of St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnelling

Old Oak Common, which is under construction, was given the highest possible rating under an international scheme