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Published online 9 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/454150b
UK physicists discover full scope of budget cuts
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If the British government really wanted to find the funding for these projects, I think that they could. For example, the olympic games budget was raised by several billion pounds last year (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/mar/16/london.communities), and the Northern Rock bank absorbed several tens of billions of pounds when it was nationalised (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/02/07/bcnrock107.xml). It seems that the UK Government grossly underestimates the value of fundamental scientific research.