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![SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::186470618.png) Simon Calder [@SimonCalder](/creator/twitter/SimonCalder) on x 203.2K followers
Created: 2025-06-18 15:54:50 UTC

HS2: I've read the official reports and statements so you didn't have to.
Depressing.
A vision for connectivity and levelling up the country has become a national embarrassment, wrecked by incompetence as tens of billions of taxpayers' cash was squandered.


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