Crossrail reveals the depth of Britain’s north-south divide | Simon Jenkins

Billions more have just been announced for the delayed London rail line - yet northern infrastructure projects are killed off

It’s been a great week to bury bad government. Two of the greatest infrastructure projects in the land hit financial grief. Normally it would have been headline news. Instead no one shows the slightest interest. The Department for Transport has long had a simple agenda. A cynic might sum it up as: give London anything it wants, but starve the north of investment until i...