Sean Rameswaram

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7,113 appearances 119 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 9 Sep

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Today, Explained · Anarchy in the UK · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

There's going to be a special BAT structure.

This...

is the HS2 Bat Tunnel, a £100 million, one kilometre shed to protect the estimated 300 bats in woodland nearby.

And you see this kind of problem replicated in all sorts of British ambitions, big and small.

So there was an effort to study whether or not you should build a tunnel underneath Stonehenge.

So, you know, they studied for 30 years whether or not you should just go underneath.

And I think they spent almost 180 million pounds and ultimately came up with nothing.

Like literally nothing was built.

It was just spent studying tunnels.

And that is, you know, something that's very familiar to Americans, this kind of pathology, but it is just prevalent all over Britain.

And with the current crisis of leadership we've got in the UK, do you see there being more harm before you actually have solutions being implemented?

So as someone who's just written something quite pessimistic about Britain, I feel a bit optimistic about the leadership change.

Andy Burnham was the mayor of Manchester, which has been one of the places that has actually been the exception to the rule of British doom and gloom.

And I think that the story that he's able to tell about how he's going to improve things in the country is a compelling one.

But I think the fact that Starmer failed really reinforced the idea that neither party knows how to fix it.

And I think if Burnham is also unable to do things, at that point, I think the people inevitably turn to Farage and they turn to other parties.

And so I think that the stakes are quite high in terms of governance, because I think that what comes after him is not a Labour or a Conservative prime minister, it's someone else.

As you heard earlier, Idris wrote how Britain became as poor as Mississippi for the Atlantic.

Miles Bryan read it for Today Explained.

Jolie Myers edited Miles.

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