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CommentHansom: Spin doctors
It鈥檚 all about image this week, as the government commiserates with the people, HOK tries to quash rumours and Gerald Ronson turns out not to be the lovable, big-hearted old softie we thought he was
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CommentThe grim reality of life as an architect
Watch programmes like Grand Designs and you鈥檇 think architecture was a glamorous, highly paid and creative profession. Rot, says Susanna Clapham
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CommentHome improvements
Regarding the article 鈥淥sborne鈥檚 axe fells schools and housing鈥� (22 October, page 9), you鈥檙e right that we鈥檙e going to need to attract a huge amount of private sector finance into the refurbishment of our existing housing stock over the next decade
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In the detail
On first analysis, it looks as though capital spending has borne the brunt of the cuts to next year鈥檚 Scottish budget announced in the UK spending review.
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There is another way
I read with interest the article by Malcolm Taylor in 星空传媒 (22 October, page 33). His dissatisfaction with the RICS expresses the feelings of many of its QS members.
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CommentQuentin Shears: How to cut a school by 40%
鈥橲uddenly I knew how George Osborne felt when he got his hands on the communities department payroll鈥�
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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鈥檛 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鈥檚 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 星空传媒 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:聽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 星空传媒
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Kinetics
Venues: The Gherkin, the Boleyn pub and the Riverside Chinese restaurant聽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