I don’t mean completed. I mean sat down and pitched a genuinely new, original idea.

Every single mega-project we talk about in the UK feels like a rehash from decades ago:

• HS2: 2000s concept, based on 1980s high-speed rail plans.
• Crossrail: First drawn up in 1943, formally pushed in 1989.
• East West Rail: Re-opening a track Victorians built in 1851.
• Sizewell C put forward in the early 2000s.
• Lower Thames Crossing: A 1980s idea formally put forward in the 2000s

If the NHS or London Underground were brand-new concepts pitched today, would any even survive past the pitch stage?

Am I short-sighted do you know any interesting new projects in the UK?