My apologies to TSR2 fans but allow me to put a different point of view.
Critics are seldom popular, but as a one time professional critic of potential military aircraft I have to say that an aerodynamic design optimised around a specification that gives priority to payload, range and a high cruise speed at low level will always have a tiny wing in order to minimise drag and improve cruise fuel consumption.
A tiny wing unavoidably leads to real problems with respect to takeoff and landing distances as well as providing an inferior medium speed manoeuvring capability. So personally I was relieved that the TSR2 was among the batch of cancelled projects that included the P1154, Fairey Rotodyne and AW681 because I felt all four were fatally flawed technically.
The P1154 design (a supersonic vertical lander which was pre Harrier) had silly efflux temperatures and velocities around and under the aeroplane during takeoff and landing and all wingborne flight with the PCB lit.
The Fairy Rotodyne was a design intended for city centre operation that thanks to a rotor driven by tip jets was so noisy it presented a real danger to the hearing of anybody in its vicinity who was not wearing ear defenders.
The AW681 (a VSTOL jet transport aircraft to support the P1154 concept of tactical ops.) was designed to do a job that clearly could have been done for a fraction of the cost by a helicopter.
Mind you I do accept that the reasons for cancelling this batch of programmes were most likely based on political expediency rather than technical merit.