Hansom: Who, me?

By Hansom2018-06-29T06:00:00

Confusion reigns as a four-year-old building ends up with a RIBA award and the Commonwealth Games tries to keep the identity of its demolition contractor secret

Political circles

On a trip last week to Portcullis House to meet Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, my colleague was waiting in the visitors’ area just past the security checks. To pass the time, she kept a look out for famous political faces wandering in and out, managing to spot Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former paralympian and now cross-bench peer Tanni Grey-Thompson in the Hopkins-designed atrium. But she was distracted from her celebrity-spotting by an official getting stuck in the revolving doors. He still hadn’t broken free as my colleague went to her meeting and, by the time she returned, another unfortunate individual had taken his place. Now that’s high security.

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