All Hansom articles – Page 2
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Construction industry gossip: That old smoothie
Dominic Raab’s secret power was his vitamin volcano, Alok Sharma can remember people’s names – and Rishi Sunak knows how to say hello
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Construction industry gossip: Yes, I remember it well …
Memory failure dogs politicians giving evidence at the Grenfell Inquiry
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Construction industry gossip: Are you sitting comfortably?
Sit back to hear some strange tales from the world of construction
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Construction industry gossip: Bits and pieces
It’s all falling apart in the corridors of power
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Construction industry gossip: Earthly goings on
The famous £6m mound of mud on Oxford Street is finally to be flattened – or is it?
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Construction industry gossip: Views from the top
This month, a sudden flurry of tales from on high
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Construction industry gossip: Raring to go
The sector’s leading lights were full of sporting energy this month – oh, and the Building Awards were back in person
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Construction industry gossip: Looney tunes
From a moon-obsessed cladding talk to a council publishing some “proper whack” planning decisions, it’s been an interesting month
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Construction industry gossip: Have you heard the latest?
There’s old news … and then there’s very, very old news
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Construction industry gossip: May the (air) force be with you
With US giants gobbling up UK firms, can only those with special powers resist?
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Construction industry gossip: Acropolis now
Cold War bunkers, the embarrassing largesse of HS2, a brutally cutting cabbie… and is that a Greek temple on the A14?
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Construction industry gossip: News, views and brews
A ticking off at HS2, City sharks and wise words from Barack Obama
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Construction industry gossip: Where the sun don’t shine
A 1960s cinema has been saved from eternal darkness, but Jack Pringle’s vinyl collection of the same era has been less fortunate. Meanwhile, David Hockney is trying to cheer us all up with a digital sunrise
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Construction industry gossip: Quick bites
The home front House of Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks there’s no need to move MPs and peers out of the Palace of Westminster while work to upgrade it is carried out. Last month, a review of the plan suggested otherwise. Doing so, it said, would ...
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Construction industry gossip: Causing a stink
Bucks fizz Good job Balfour Beatty is paying back that £19m it claimed last year in furlough money from the government, because its chief executive Leo Quinn positively revelled in detailing how much it was handing back to shareholders over the coming year. “It will be ...
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Construction industry gossip: Look on the bright side
The Garden Bridge wasn’t bad for everyone, it appears – and at least it’s half term! Meanwhile in Italy, Renzo Piano has had his jab
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Construction industry gossip: Nutty effervescence
A housing minister comes over all Marie Antoinette as he sips a bit of bubbly… meanwhile, working parents are going round the bend
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Construction industry gossip: What a year that was!
After the 12 months we’ve had we all need some light relief
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Construction industry gossip: Porches and pooches
An unexpected consequences of Zoom, plus a celebrity dog makes an appears on screens
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Construction industry gossip: The life and times
A shameless plug for a book all about me (Joseph Aloysius Hansom, founder of The Builder) and my links with social reformer Robert Owen