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Between 1995 and 2007, Madrid tripled its metro network by adding 127 miles of track and 157 stations at a cost of $12.5 billion. In Canada/USA, subway construction costs average more than $1 billion per mile. If we could build at scale and at a lower cost, we'd be unstoppable.

🚨BREAKING🚨 The trial verdict is in. A jury in the Morton County courthouse found Greenpeace International and two Greenpeace entities in the United States liable for over US$ 660 million combined in Energy Transfer’s meritless SLAPP lawsuit. #WeWillNotBeSilenced

It gets more Brexity by the minute…

Fund managers have said that Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda has instead unleashed a Make Europe Great Again trade that is reordering global financial markets. www.ft.com/content/2e81...

Number crunching: BP’s change of strategy on renewables  From the new Private Eye, out now.

Spot on

VOX POPULI VOX DEI

This is the person of the year.

Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions From the new Private Eye, out now.

It's a very windy November day today in Edinburgh, as it was 240 years ago (14th of the month, to be precise) when Alexander Runciman sketched this gentleman struggling to keep a hold of his hat and cape in the teeth of a gale on Chapel Street in the George Square district.

With new figures showing that more than one in three children in the UK are now living in poverty, with deprivation hitting a record high, it's good to see the Times focusing on the people who are really struggling