HS2 has never had the attention it needs and the scrutiny its scale demands. This is Britain’s largest infrastructure project, dwarfing the Channel Tunnel by a factor of around ten in terms of the cost and yet it has been allowed to bumble along as if it were the construction a little branch line to

Details of failings were revealed in a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon, as critics branded the project a 'national embarrassment and 'white elephant'.

HS2 has never had the attention it needs and the scrutiny its scale demands. This is Britain’s largest infrastructure project, dwarfing the Channel Tunnel by a factor of around…

The government is in thrall to the sunk-cost fallacy. Scrap the project, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins