All Hansom articles – Page 3
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Have you heard the latest?
There’s old news … and then there’s very, very old news
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CommentConstruction 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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CommentConstruction 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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CommentConstruction industry gossip: News, views and brews
A ticking off at HS2, City sharks and wise words from Barack Obama
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CommentConstruction 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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CommentConstruction 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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CommentConstruction 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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CommentConstruction 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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CommentConstruction 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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CommentConstruction industry gossip: What a year that was!
After the 12 months we’ve had we all need some light relief
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Porches and pooches
An unexpected consequences of Zoom, plus a celebrity dog makes an appears on screens
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CommentConstruction 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
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Alert but not alarmed
This week’s mix of unexploded bombs, books from beyond the grave and a lucky person benefiting from lockdown
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: One for the pot
As housebuilders struggle to put their falling numbers into words, some wag has at least a suggestion of what they can put into their hard hats
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Belt and braces
While the on-site approach to the pandemic seems to be that you can never have too many health and safety signs, those working from home are taking the opposite approach in terms of trousers
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: One for the road
Pity the A66, whose dualling media shunned in favour of Dom’s lockdown shenanigans – but where even is it?
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: A bit of help from our friends
It’s all hands on deck with the people making face masks, face shields and stepping up as key workers
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Toilet roll troubles and home schooling
Gossip on how to calculate toilet roll usage, Lapsley’s connection to Wates and makeshift hospitals
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Rishi Sunak as Bob the Builder and Brighton’s bright idea
Gossip on Rory Stewart napping, Rishi Sunak’s Budget speech and bee bricks
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Stolen hand gel and Rory Stewart’s familiar billboards
Gossip on coronavirus fears, alcohol-free sanitiser and the Cycle to Mipim bike ride