All Hansom articles – Page 36

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2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

This week our fearless iconoclast takes on Eric Clapton, the British state and the England football team, yet is strangely sympathetic with Richard Bowker
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2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Rok rocks, Cyril Sweett hits eBay and descriptions of Amec and Alan Lovell prove elusive. At least you know where you are with building control …
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2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

Could Wembley have a future as a volleyball court? Is the office market inspired by communists? We have the answers to these questions and more …
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2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

Our man in the know tells us what to avoid on your honeymoon, when MPs should keep shtoom and how a Building columnist is setting off on the road to stardom
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2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

This week we report the propaganda war between Multiplex and Cleveland Bridge, laugh in the face of the nationals and play hunt the steak and kidney pie
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2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

More gossip detected by Building's giant ear, this week relating to political preferment, the battle for Battersea and an unlikely casting decision
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2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

This week our confidence-o-meter shows high ratings for the man from Auntie but jitters for Jowell, a judge and what used to be known as the dome ...
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2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

How to host a football-themed awards ceremony: get various captains of industry to wear novelty scarves and make sure you invite Motty …
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2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

Our correspondent finds the industry criminal, politically incorrect, in denial, championed, deliriously happy and one Allen key short of an Ikea toolkit …
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2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

Grey vote, orange skin, pink porcelain and none-too-green denim star in this week's colourful round-up of construction chatter
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2006-03-24T00:00:00Z

Take the property industry to Cannes, add champagne, stir, and sit back and enjoy the petty recriminations, boat crashes and inappropriate 1980s dancing …
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2006-03-17T00:00:00Z

Alun Michael at an industry dinner proves to be as nervous as a Dartford warbler on a Berkshire housing development (for explanation, see below)
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2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

Our correspondent stalks the corridors and canteens and, indeed, toilets of power this week in his endless search for those things the government doesn't want you to see
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2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

What are the connections: Mace and an East End hard nut; Richard Rogers and the Windsors; Boris Johnson and Jaws; Renzo Piano and the X Factor? Read on …
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2006-02-24T00:00:00Z

Keep it under your hat, but John doesn't know Richard's advising David, Jack's talking to lawyers, Clare's working with Bill and Dalton's just lost his shirt
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2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

Who got pipped to the post by David Higgins? Who wants to take over the world? And which QS cowered before our sporting prowess? Answers below …
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2006-02-10T00:00:00Z

A makeover special: Basildon transformed into a seaside resort, Westlife turn into housing experts and Livingstone casts himself in Passport to Pimlico
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2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

Our intrepid correspondent dodges gas explosions, endures Trust Mark's reality TV performance and braves breakfast with the indomitable Tony Pidgle
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2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

This week our bon vivant diarist divides his time between the House of Lords, Las Vegas and a north London nuclear fall-out shelter …
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2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

A veritable surfeit of celebs: the latest on the Frank Gehry and Brad Pitt ‘collaboration', the Tebbits set up shop and Lord Brockett in the house of wax