I was leafing through the Daily Telegraph the other day when, good heavens, leapt from the page.
Not just any old letter. This was the lead letter. At the top of the page. It was the most important letter of the day, in the view of the editor.
The headline – HS2 will help to unlock growth in the eight largest cities outside of London – summed up perfectly the economic case for high speed rail, even if it probably had Tory MPs representing shire constituencies on the planned route spluttering into their kedgeree in anger.
Sir Albert Bore had succeeded where, in recent years, his predecessors all too often failed by