Britain struggles to achieve any project of scale. Just look at our lack of success in building nuclear power stations.

We have one high speed rail link already, HS1. It goes from London to the channel tunnel.

This article is about HS2, that would go north.

If you think that’s bad, wait till you hear about the US… Only one small part that hits 150mph (240km/h) on a 50mi (80km) section. For a country that’s got more land area that Europe…