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How Infrastructure Delay Becomes Normalised When Sam Richards , chief executive of Britain Remade , spoke to the UK Parliament in 2025, his phrase “from bat tunnels to fish discos”  struck a nerve. https://www.salmonbusiness.com/nuclear-plants-new-700-million-fish-disco-to-save-less-than-one-wild-salmon-per-year/ It wasn’t anti-environmental rhetoric. It was a critique of how modern infrastructure systems increasingly confuse process with outcomes — producing delay, cost escalation, and...

The Mayor and every NPDC Councillor and community board member stood up after the election, read the following card, and swore an oath to serve faithfully and impartially . (see mine below) But let’s be honest: this was one of the most politically influenced local elections our district has seen in years. Some candidates campaigned under a party colour. Lobby groups mobilised like it was a general election. Hard-left and hard-right factions openly claimed credit for “getting their people in.”...

“I believe Council decisions should be made with  the community, not just for  them. One of the biggest challenges in local government is...