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That ‘Insane’ Report

August 13th, 2008 10 Comments

I’ve been flicking through the increasingly infamous new Policy Exchange report - ‘Cities Unlimited’ - and, despite fairly extraordinary ambitions, much of it seems a little thin. The denunciations of the “beyond revival” northern cities have caused the bulk of the backlash, but with regards to London the authors fancy an urban expansion of at [...]

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Private Eye nuggets

August 10th, 2008 1 Comment

A couple of Boris bits from the latest Eye. First, from Rotten Boroughs:
Boris & Ken
“The trouble we have — and it is one of the few things in politics which makes me almost wild with anger — is the sale of the playing fields, above all the sale of the playing fields in state schools,” [...]

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