The York Station Gateway scheme is, we are told, £34 million in the red. Some water companies have debts in the millions and HS2 has an overspend of billions of pounds. If I spend beyond my means, I get a scathing letter from the bank and I sort it out PDQ. THE world seems to have forgotten that for 17 years, two million Palestinians in Gaza have struggled under a brutal Israeli military siege. Severe shortages of life-saving medicines, food, electricity and clean water are routinely not available and make life in Gaza almost unbearable.