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Cock ups is a funny way to spell corruption. Venal politicians, avaricious businessmen and shedloads of cash is a heady mix. In Spain's case, increased EU oversight, along with a number of high profile corruption scandals in past decades, seems to have improved things markedly. Still...

In the Spanish case ypou can guarantee the questions would've been asked before hand. They love a bit of bureaucracy and form-filling. Even if you want to paint you kitchen, you have to go to the town hall to get a licence. Andy Burnham was suggesting exactly that yesterday and I don't think...

Occam's razor would suggest that is the case. It can't just be incompetence and surveys, can it? The original budget was 55 million quid but that has now doubled. Spain have spent 55 million euros on their whole high-speed network. That's well over 3000km of track, which would be the...

It's just staggering isn't it. How on earth does it cost us 8x more than the Spanish to lay high-speed lines. We're even using the same company, a Spanish firm, to do the work. The UK director of said firm says it's down to the planning. When they do a job in Spain, the government deals with...