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OUT OF THE BUBBLE
By Ben Pryor
The HS2 train line got the go-ahead after an ‘independent’ review conducted by the former head of the project. £100bn seems a lot to shave 20 minutes off the time it takes to get from London to Birmingham but perhaps I’m thinking about the journey the wrong way round. BoJo has bigger concerns, after a minor cabinet reshuffle ended with Chancellor Sajid Javid resigning. Rishi Sunak gets the dubious honour of moving in next to Boris, with the usual proviso not to send recordings of his domestics to the Guardian. Bernie Sanders has won the New
Hampshire primary, to go with last week’s Iowa Caucus. Pocahontas and Sleepy Joe’s campaigns have been left on life support with Pete Buttgag the nearest challenger. The Democrats seem as agnostic of the reasons they lost four years ago as the Labour leadership candidates over here refusing to denounce the Jeremy and John McDonnell’s economic suicide pact, you can go ahead and schedule the bewildered metropolitan liberal outrage for the morning of the 4th of November. The Princess Royal’s son Peter Phillips has separated from his wife Autumn after 12 years. She’s a Canadian citizen but, lest the Sussexes worry she’ll be threatening their franchise, has already committed to staying to raise their daughters. With Princess Beatrice’s wedding lower-key than a Barry White song, if only to keep the father-of-the-bride from hitting on her
