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HS2: the great property robbery
The stifling power of property rights blocks the track to modernisation in Britain, writes ANDREW MURRAY
A train passes the HS2 construction site in Euston, London
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BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
CONTEMPLATING the sad stump of HS2 — as this is written the cancellation of its remaining northern leg looks inevitable — I recall a conversation I had with the great Marxist economist David Harvey a few years ago.
He was describing how he would visit a district in China and find it more-or-less a wilderness and then return maybe four years later to see it full of factories, housing developments and the most modern infrastructure, including high-speed rail lines.
I asked how the Chinese government was able to accomplish this and his answer stuck with me: “Property rights are not a problem.”
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