How do you boost defence spending and reverse the corporation tax hike in tomorrow's Budget? Scrap HS2
The new rail line wouldn’t boost the North. It would only speed up – slightly – the brain drain to London
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The new rail line wouldn’t boost the North. It would only speed up – slightly – the brain drain to London
SIR – I was gobsmacked to read that masking at schools in England during the Covid pandemic was introduced after Boris Johnson was told it “was not worth an argument” with Nicola Sturgeon (report, March 2).
The number of state employees is growing inexorably. To reduce spending, it is time to see if all these roles are needed
CRAIG BROWN: Gossip never dies. My biography of Princess Margaret was first published back in 2017.
SIR – Janet Daley is right to describe the European Union as essentially undemocratic but wrong to imagine that this was the determining factor for most of us who voted Leave in 2016, even if it was for Ms Daley (“There is little point to Brexit if our leaders have given up on democracy”, Comment, February 12).