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In Passing

08 January 2016

 

The Spectator asked readers to come up with a poem about HS2. Here’s our favourite, from a Mr Basil Ransome-Davies:

It’s as pointless as cheating at patience, 

As cuckoo as ironing the cat,

A businessman’s scheme, a commercial wet dream,

In the shape of a formal diktat.

Though the magic words ‘northern’ and ‘powerhouse’,

Pronounced like a mystical spell,

Are combined to inspire, setting all hearts on fire, 

They exude a pestiferous...

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