Good to see @pallabg.bsky.social addressing this.
FWIW -was shocked in informal conversation with a high-up year or two ago, to be told that it wouldn't matter if the next 'Higgs' was discovered at a Chinese (pricey) collider if the (cheap) theory had a British name on it.
Lack of ambition??
Roland Pease
UK particle physics and astronomy are facing “catastrophic” cuts while science spending received a record increase. Documents seen by @BBCNews suggest money has been diverted away to government research areas🧪. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.
