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Back issues: Celebrating 150 years of incomprehensible rail fares 鈥�
February 1859: Our remarks touching the policy of railway companies
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CommentWe need a strategy
鈥淚t鈥檚 all very well calling for a Keynesian programme of public works to kickstart the economy,鈥� wrote Rachel Sylvester in The Times on Tuesday, 鈥渂ut JM Keynes did not have to deal with the PFI.鈥�
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Is there any value in valuing housing?
I thought it might be worth responding to the comment from Gerry. I don't get many comments and he raises a good point.My first reaction is to say that I couldn't agree more that people should see homes as homes and not as investments. I also feel that if we ...
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The power of the brand
So, Sir Robert McAlpine is the best brand in construction.So says a new list of the top 500 鈥渂usiness superbrands鈥� in the UK anyway.The pathologically secretive contractor came in at number 101 on a list that was topped by Google, Rolls Royce and Sony.So publicity-shy is the company that the ...
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拢1 trillion wiped off the value of UK homes
Let's not get too worked up about the 拢40 billion loss by RBS - those foolish bankers that went into a bidding war to buy ABN Amro at peak.If the Nationwide figures are any reflection of the true value of houses in the UK then we have just witness about ...
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White Young Green gives City a nasty surprise
All is clearly not well at engineering consultant White Young Green.It took the City by surprise today by bringing forward its half-year results from Friday at the eleventh hour. If there's one thing the market hates even more than bad news it's "sudden" news.Combine that with the fact it also ...
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Is this Government ignorance which I see before me?
The latest report from the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee called Housing and the Credit Crunch is well worth a read for a run through of the current travails of the industry.It seems broadly to "welcome" what the CLG and the Government more widely has been doing ...
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More mortgage cash from Northern Rock, but will it make a difference?
So Northern Rock is to get back into mortgages. I hear the cheers.The aim will be to get the first time buyer market moving. I hear more cheers.It will start lending on loan to value rates of up to 80% or even 90% - definitely not 100%, because that should ...
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CommentDon鈥檛 stop now
It is vital to maintain good working practices and industry capacity, so that when the recession ends Britain can meet the challenges of a new era
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星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Mott MacDonald
星空传媒鈥檚 meeting with Mott MacDonald鈥檚 transportation team has an inauspicious start 鈥� there鈥檚 a security alert on the Jubilee line. Out of breath, dishevelled and half an hour late, I arrive to find them settled in.
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CommentFisticuffs
Warning: this week鈥檚 diary contains graphic scenes of violence, as a Unite officer tests out his right jab, a Wembley grudge match reaches round two and Tim Byles submits to the school bullies
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CommentRumours of Dubai鈥檚 demise鈥�
The UK and US press have been making themselves feel better by trashing Dubai
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Golden opportunities
I have lived and worked in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia, over the past 25 years and never regretted a minute of it. Some of my friends have been there for more than 30 years.
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Rethinking Britain
Historically the construction industry has been used as either a brake or an accelerator for the UK economy 鈥� subject to the whims of the party in power
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Not-so-lucky dip
As a bricklayer with 24 years鈥� experience in the subcontracting game, it is with some relief that my son and I no longer subcontract
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CommentOne hell of a job
So are we all agreed, then? What the government needs is a construction industry that is able to turn public investment into buildings and jobs
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CommentWhat remains
The housebuilding industry that emerges from this recession will bear little resemblance to the one that grew out of the nineties slump