(1) First, Britain's rail network is bulging at the seams: the country needs new capacity and the cost of bodged piecemeal enlargements to the existing network are cruelly expensive and yield minimal benefits compared to HS2, as former transport minister Lord Adonis argues.
(2) The managing editor of the Sun, Richard Caseby, said the government-sponsored charter, was draconian and "bodged together" while Cameron was asleep.
(3) She added: "The thought of Homebase bodging up and running Habitat makes me want to weep … " Duddy said he did not know whether the deal had the blessing of Conran but said the design team was in contact with the founder recently and those conversations had been positive.
(4) Photograph: Sarah Lee Sitting in a cafe across the road from the vibrant hoardings of the new-look Heygate, a former resident of the estate is furious about the missed opportunity in what he sees as the borough’s bodged negotiations over the development deal.
(5) The fruits of that included the demise of Avon county council in 1996, which the West of England combined authority is a bodged attempt at recreating.
(6) They’ll still have bodging politicians in charge.
(7) This is the traditional clever bodging of British central government.
(8) I think many, if not all, socialists of my stamp felt the invasions of Afghanistan and then Iraq as colossal shocks that exposed how bodged-up our belief systems really were.
(9) Such talk is laughably anachronistic, of course, but powerful symbols often are – and it hurts Brown more, for instance, than £10bn of bodged IT contracts ever could.