All Hansom articles – Page 31
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CommentEat, drink, fall overboard
It’s Cowes again, where gentleman are free to do what gentleman do best – sail close to the wind, sink pontoons, tumble arse-first down hatches and beer-first off the back of boats
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CommentTime and space
This week’s report from construction’s hidden world tracks down Sunand Prasad and Jarvis Cocker on route to the Arctic, takes the air in Dubai and uncovers a strange transformation in Edinburgh
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CommentHansom Dancing away the storm
There may be trouble ahead, but while there’s music and moonlight and love and romance, let’s face the music and dance. Alternatively, we could just change our names
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CommentHansom — summer lovin’
It’s hugs and smiles all around this week (unless you’re a housebuilder, of course), with bosses getting plenty of TLC, fathers learning from daughters, and Boris feeling the wind through his hair
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CommentHansom — Good sports
The country is in sporting mood, and the construction industry is no exception, cycling, diving and sailing the summer away. Oh, and rescuing some cute little kittens. Aww …
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CommentAnd the livin’ is easy
It’s summertime, and the industry is rising to the occasion. What would the holiday season be without some natty new shoes, daytime TV and a little bit of summer lovin’ as well?
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CommentHansom: things can only get bitter
Disappointment all round this week as Christmas parties are called off, summer parties downgraded, guests turn up to wait in endless queues and some escape to Mongolia in whatever they can afford
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CommentYou thought things were bad
This week, we paint a vision of a dystopian future – a world in which journalists are politicians, the credit crunch ends in murderous pillage and the word ‘Olympics’ may not be spoken …
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CommentHansom: curiouser and curiouser
As the economic world disappears down the rabbit hole, we find ourselves in a strange land where no email is quite as it seems, consultants befriend barn owls and masked builders roam the Orient
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CommentOoh matron!
Despite the gloom, the industry has been Carrying On, thanks to some deliciously wobbly desserts and some naughty business in a public park
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CommentHansom: Spooky
Lovesick phantoms, a paranormal ability to rewrite the past and a man who can talk to the animals (to the animals) – recently, construction has been getting decidedly weird
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CommentYou're Mr Pink
Congratulations to Bovis Lend Lease chief executive Murray “Lance Armstrong” Coleman who joined 84 colleagues to ride the 54 miles from London to Brighton last weekend to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.
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CommentHansom: uncomfortable moments
Awkward questions are raised at a government press conference, Barratt’s staff decide against keeping a low profile and Murray Coleman wears pink lycra
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CommentJust desserts
Bouygues gets its own back on your diarist, BCO delegates take delight in Gordon Brown’s travails, and Lord Foster pours his considerable talent into making a really splendid jelly
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CommentSecret things
Another perilous descent into the turbid underworld of the industry’s psyche, where we discover Bouygues’ secret shame, spy on Sir Terry Farrell and make a surprising discovery in the underwear department
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CommentNew adventures …
... of construction’s own Indiana Jones, the strange case of the incredibly hairy bedfellow, and two very good reasons to turn down a job on the Southbank …
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CommentVarious positions
Mark Clare is staying, Ross Brewer is leaping, Lawrie Haynes and Boris Johnson can’t be seen, a female engineer is attracting attention and the Department of Health is getting hot under the collar
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CommentKeep it vague
Mastering detail isn’t everyone’s strong point, of course, so it’s easy to think you’ve built more homes than you have, forget just when it was your boss left or fail to remember way back in March when T5 opened …
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CommentConflict zones
This week we get into a swordfight with the ODA, a bunfight with Nigella Lawson and a turf war in the West Country before getting ourselves mixed up in some kind of Russian espionage mission
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Sexual politics
Sometimes it’s hard to be a man. They must use tact when persuading partners not to drive off a cliff and are cruelly judged on the colour of their shirts. Still, at least they don’t have to give birth…