Can Britain recover the competence that rests on national cohesion and pride?

Faced with a coronavirus outbreak in the city of Wuhan, the Chinese are building a 1,000-bed hospital from scratch. In one week. While the Chinese were starting to assemble a hospital in under seven days, a report commissioned by Manchester city council on the HS2 high-speed train plan for the city revealed that under present designs, which cost £570 million, some of the platforms will be facing the wrong way. The report, by the engineering company Bechtel, shows that passengers arriving at Manchester airport who want to get to Leeds…

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