Odds and Ends #22: HS2's Manchester leg might live again. Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully.

Plus why free wifi in London would be pointless, and my trip to the World's Largest Truckstop.

Hello! It’s the first 2024 instalment of Odds and Ends, your newsletter-within-a-newsletter rounding up the most interesting stuff I’ve seen this week. And even more excitingly (for me at least), because the Iowa Caucus is just days away now, I thought I’d add a little bit telling you about what I saw in Iowa when I went on holiday to the caucus in 2020 (!).

But first! Something that sounds like it could maybe, just maybe, be a sliver of good news about HS2.