house prices
Patrick Crozier outlines his manifesto for becoming London Mayor on Samizdata [http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/004623.html#004623]. David Sucher on City Comforts Blog makes a rather baffling assertation that house prices aren’t too high in the minds of the owners [http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2003/
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architecture
I tend to avoid writing about things close to my day job here, but I found this post [http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/004196.html] on Samizdata.net interesting. Brian Micklethwait has some insightful things to say about Terry Farrell, Broadway Malyan and certain architectural choices. All this is
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iraq
In this day and age of political apathy, there’s at least one group I respect. Every week, the Women in Black make their silent protest on an issue that concerns them, under the statue of Edith Cavell on St Martin’s Lane. The stand questly, wearing or holding banners
canary wharf
 Another day, another working lunch. This time it was the RICS Property Management Awards, held at Cabot Hall over at Canary Wharf. It made a pleasant change from the normal hotels, with the
birds
There’s something about this picture that makes it look Photoshopped. I think it’s the wild, staring eye of the pigeon that makes it looks like it’s about to attack me. I assure you that the picture’s quite genuine, though, grabbed this afternoon in St James’ Park.
iraq
I was at a seminar at the RICS [http://www.rics.org.uk/] in Westminster this morning. A comment from the organiser about the increased security (the building is opposite the Houses of Parliament) prompted me to wander down to the on-going protests to see how they were going, a
london
I had a wonderful meeting this morning. Well, to be honest, the meeting itself tended towards the mundane, but the venue was possibly my idea of heaven on earth: the London branch of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society [http://www.smws.com] . I could spend the rest of my life,