Preview: Colleague Joseph Sternberg in London reminds not to rule out incompetence when puzzling about the Heathrow failure. More later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:30.2 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague, Joseph Sternberg. |
| 0:34.3 | He's in London for the Wall Street Journal editorial page. |
| 0:37.3 | He writes political |
| 0:38.2 | economics, observing the fire at a substation outside of Heathrow that led to a cascade of |
| 0:46.2 | events closing Heathrow airport late a Thursday night in America, early a Friday morning in London. Joe observes the everybody's first thought was perhaps an attack, terrorism. |
| 1:02.2 | He throws a hub for the globe. However, Joe explains you shouldn't skip the obvious, which is somebody made a mistake. |
| 1:12.8 | Here's Joe to explain. |
| 1:14.3 | First thought, then second thought, about major infrastructure failing in London, life in London. |
| 1:22.3 | More of this later tonight. |
| 1:24.1 | I think that naturally, whenever you have some kind of unusual event like this happen that is so |
| 1:31.7 | economically destructive and disruptive people who wonder if there was some sort of terrorism |
| 1:36.5 | or sabotage. |
| 1:38.1 | But I think that frankly, particularly in the UK, you can't rule out accident or incompetence. And it's beginning to look like |
| 1:47.7 | there might be some elements of one or both of those things. I think that there are questions about |
| 1:55.5 | why exactly it is that the systems that are supposed to prevent fires from breaking out in electricity substations |
| 2:02.4 | failed in this case, and so that's going to be one strand. |
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