All articles by Gerald Kaufman

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    Crack house crackdown

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Didn't think the Queen's Speech was radical enough? Get a load of John Prescott's housing bill – it aims to tackle many of the more egregious abuses

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    The yuppies will save us

    2003-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Not so long ago, it seemed many UK cities would be better off as farmland. Now, thanks to retail therapy and loft living, we are seeing a great transformation

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    No Wow now

    2003-07-11T00:00:00Z

    St Paul's is a constant reminder that we no longer produce the kind of jaw-dropping buildings that characterise 17th-century London and modern Los Angeles

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    Why I can't shut up

    2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

    The government is embarking on a monumental folly by backing London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The best we can hope is that the bid fails

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    America's playground

    2003-04-11T00:00:00Z

    Was the war against Saddam undertaken to liberate Iraq for the Iraqi people, or to liberate Iraqi assets for US capitalism? The signs so far are rather ominous

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    We need vocal locals

    2003-03-21T00:00:00Z

    Council planners generally put the interests of the community first, but if things don't work out that way, there's not a lot the community can do about it

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    We need vocal locals

    2003-03-21T00:00:00Z

    Council planners generally put the interests of the community first, but if things don't work out that way, there's not a lot the community can do about it

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    Ministry of silly sports

    2003-02-14T00:00:00Z

    Why are we building one dual-use stadium that wouldn't be used for athletics, and considering a £300m athletics stadium that would only be used once?

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    Stay out of it

    2002-11-01T00:00:00Z

    By getting involved in Wembley the government ended up flat on its face. If only it would stick to what it's good at and leave construction projects to others

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    Cities of joy and shame

    2002-09-06T00:00:00Z

    Why is Salisbury closer to Santa Fe than Manchester is to Leeds? Well, you'll have to go to Birmingham in the autumn to answer that question …

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    Overseas aid

    2002-07-05T00:00:00Z

    Far from sponging off the welfare state, immigrant labour – perhaps even when it is illegal – is helping to keep the British economy in robust health

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    Hell on Earth

    2002-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Abandoned cars are one thing, but some cities are littered with abandoned homes. Can draft planning guidance bring hope to areas that have abandoned it?

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    Houses, not circuses

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    If 1.7 million homes are 'not decent', that means that something like the entire population of London is living in squalor. What on earth can we do?

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    Olympian folly

    2002-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Everyone is so keen on a British Olympic bid that they're failing to ask whether London really wants to host the games – let alone whether it actually can

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    Victorian values

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Something must be done to prevent closed listed buildings, such as Manchester's once-proud Victoria Baths, from falling into rack and ruin

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    Teaching the Big Apple

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The Manchester bomb in 1996 provided an opportunity for revolutionary urban renewal that was ultimately wasted. New York should learn from our mistakes

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    Cut and run

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Sports authorities are scraping around for money to build an athletics stadium for the World Championships. Tough. The government would be crazy to fill the gap

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    The delivery boys

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    If Tony Blair is to fulfil his "instruction to deliver" he must tackle officialdom's failure to implement policy effectively – a source of much misery

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    Shout it from the rooftops

    2001-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Gerald Kaufman - Elections used to be won and lost on housing. This time, it'll barely be mentioned – even though, as a new report points out, it's still an explosive issue.

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    Ministerial meddling

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Gerald Kaufman - Wembley, Picketts Lock and the new British Library all have one thing in common: government intervention. In no instance did it help at all