Opinion – Page 310
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CommentQuentin Shears: How to cut a school by 40%
’Suddenly I knew how George Osborne felt when he got his hands on the communities department payroll’
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CommentDropping in for a pizza
Thanks to Martin Corbishley for spotting this demonstration of the lengths some people will go to for a decent Quattro Stagione
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CommentConstruction growth continues to roar, but can you hear it?
On the GDP measure, construction grew 9.5% in the second quarter of this year and 4.0% in the latest quarter. Is it real?
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CommentWhen does hospitality become bribery?
New legislation is leaving businesses nervous about what is and isn’t allowed
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CommentTwo bags of ballast = One dimwit in a hi-vis
Thanks to Gavin Williams of Wates for spotting this evidence of the seesaw theory of mathematics
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CommentWhy the spending review might prove a turning onto the road to Nirvana for housebuilders
However, the prospects for housing, housing associations and contractors are far less rosy
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CommentHas government really made an 'investment in the future'?
Osborne made commitments to invest in key areas but capital budgets have still been hit
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CommentSpending review: What’s the damage?
We now have certainty and the knowledge that government plans to invest
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CommentHow I learned to love part L
The Building Regulations - it hardly needs saying - must be greeted with fear and loathing. But oddly, says Gus Alexander, they can instil a feeling approximating joy - if only for 10 seconds
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CommentThe RICS: Are we being served?
Open mike: QSs have little in common with estate agents yet we share the same professional body. We have to break free and form an organisation that truly represents us
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Inbox: Intelligence briefing
Three readers watch the state, another takes surveillance photos and a fifth tries to decipher Building
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Kinetics
Venues: The Gherkin, the Boleyn pub and the Riverside Chinese restaurant Topics: Corporate hospitality, Glen Medeiros, the fall of Connaught, Ian Dury Drinks: One bottle of La Cote Blanche Sancerre 2009, one gin and tonic, 15 pints of Guinness, 14 bottles of lager
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CommentPre-action disclosure in arbitration: Travelers Insurance vs Countrywide Surveyors
This case hinged on whether the court could order documents to be disclosed when the parties were subject to an arbitration agreement
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CommentOsborne establishes his green credentials
It’s a pleasant surprise to see the government backing the low-carbon agenda
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CommentHansom : The bestiary
Strange creatures stalk the diary page this week, including a giraffe on a desert island, a disorganised German organisation and a construction professional who made all the girls swoon
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CommentBalance of terror
Our thanks to Nigel Barrett for this picture of daily life on a south London trading estate.
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CommentRead our online Spending Review debate
Readers put their questions to the industry experts debating the implications of the governement’s Spending Review
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CommentRonson, Pidgley and Kerslake anticipate 5 years of housing gloom
Predictions from panelists at Movers & Shakers breakfast are as cold as the weather following yesterday's CSR
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CommentAt least Crossrail is going ahead (slowly)
The London rail link will arrive three years late, and there’s a steep decline in health capital spending.