“EastEnders set rebuild goes £27m over budget”

Dec 14, 2018 | In the news

So can you trust anyone even vaguely connected with government to bring a building project in on budget? In the same week we hear that the reconstruction of the Queen Vic is costing more than some footballers earn in a year, comes the news that ‘Crossrail is set to get another £1 billion bailout as its start date is pushed back even further’. I know that most Tories think the BBC are raving lefties but that should surely be in their favour. The Chinese seem to get all sorts of things built on time and on budget. Many of them in Central London.

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“Apple versus the world”

Apple has just launched its first actual new product in quite a while, a virtual reality gizmo, and that is quite big news. What they do put out there is usually a big seller and makes still more big bucks.