Construction industry gossip: Have you heard the latest?

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2021-09-17T05:00:00

There’s old news … and then there’s very, very old news

Keep up to speed with old news

One of my hacks was a bit miffed this month when a press release from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) on an upcoming government green scheme turned out not to contain a single shred of new information. The “announcement”, as it was described, reminded him of when disgraced New Labour spin doctor Jo Moore emailed the transport department’s press office on the day of the 9/11 attacks saying it was a “good day to bury bad news”. Maybe BEIS, as the 20th anniversary of the attack approached, saw it as a good day to publish old news. How times have changed.

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