The independent commentary on British political affairs.
The independent commentary on British political affairs.
May 2008
Vol. 11, No. 11
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In 1986, Thatcher and Mitterrand finally gave the go-ahead to the construction of the Channel Tunnel after more than a century of false starts. It took the French a mere seven years to build a high-speed link from Paris to the tunnel, whereas Britain’s equivalent has only just opened. It had taken five years for Michael Heseltine to force Whitehall to accept the sensible route proposed by the engineers at Arup. It runs through the desolate Thames Gateway lands in north Kent and east …
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