All Leader articles – Page 26
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US consultanting giants: About the size of it
Clients who have had a close relationship with a consultant they see as independent and free thinking could hesitate before employing a more impersonal multinational
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Degrees of awfulness
George Osborne’s Budget isn’t as bad as we feared – but it’s still going to hurt
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False economies
Experian is predicting a slight upturn for 2011 and 2012, but that’s predicated on continued recovery in the private sector and no more than £5bn cuts in public spending. That’s optimistic
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Now every penny counts
The new PM is putting all the skills he learned as a PR to work in preparing us for his deficit reduction measures
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Should you be tempted by Brazil?
Beach volleyball as the sun goes down, caipirinhas on demand and £360bn of government-assured infrastructure investment.
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The HCA must survive
We’re living in anxious times. And if you’re in the social housing world, it’s as nerve-jangling as it gets
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What’s going on?
The coalition has stated that it will review spending commitments made since January using its own value for money criteria, and it’s obvious that the £55bn earmarked for schools renewal is not going to survive this process unscathed
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Will the QSs leave the RICS?
Drama in Westminster is not confined to the politicians. In the corner of Parliament Square where the RICS resides, tension between the institution’s management and its QS members is at snapping point.
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Should you join the yellow tide?
By the time you read these words on Friday, Nick Clegg may have fumbled the second leadership debate and the public’s sudden passion for the Lib Dems could have evaporated
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Being good in a wicked world
Go into a local market with a local partner, and you are responsible for what it does – even if the boss is the minister of justice’s brother-in-law
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Could you vote labour again?
The industry used to vote how it wanted, safe in the knowledge that it wouldn’t change a thing. Back in 2005 most of the industry thought that Labour had the best economic policies, yet felt free to vote Tory
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Starving artist syndrome
The BA saga might be giving unions a controversial reputation, but a more organised workforce wouldn’t go amiss in the architecture profession right now
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Something to shout about
One of the best bits of news we’ve heard in a long time was delivered by Ed Miliband last week
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The real cost of regulation
According to the government, providing homebuyers with a plentiful supply of new homes has been an important goal for most of the past decade
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Wrong time for an overhaul
Over the past few decades our system for regulating the supply of land and what can or cannot be built on it has become labyrinthine
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Why we need Charter 284
This week Building is launching a campaign to argue for five policy goals that the winner of the general election should implement
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Philosophical advice
University spending is vanishing, but that doesn't meant this is another LSC debacle