2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, inRAIL, number948, page 3:
As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddlesnake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".
