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Credit crunch: combating recession with potato-based snacks
When I first clocked a recession was imminent – after I’d checked the relevant terms of my contract and cancelled the statue of myself in solid gold I was having made for the front garden – I began to...
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Marf: City Blues at the Guildhall Art Gallery
My review of Marf: City Blues, an exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery, appears in the Independent. The Guildhall in the City is an appropriate venue for a series of cartoons about the financial...
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Time Out and listings
Time Out went free this week. It wasn’t really a shock, the notion had been knocking around when I worked there, particularly when thelondonpaper and London Lite were stinking up the streets. The...
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Inside London’s super-prime houses
I wrote this article in 2011 for Gulf Life about London’s super-prime property market. They call it super-prime. That’s the end of the London property market that starts at £15 million and goes as high...
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Secret London: inside Wapping’s abandoned Tobacco Dock
It seemed like a good idea at the time. It was the mid-1980s, the economy was booming and Docklands was on the up. Tobacco Dock, an old Grade I-listed warehouse off East Smithfield in Wapping, seemed...
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Homeless in London
This is a rewritten version of a piece I wrote on London’s homeless tours in 2011. No amount of playful London nerdery can prepare you for the emotional thump that is an Unseen Tour. These walks are...
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Power station problems
While writing my forthcoming book about Battersea Power Station, I often wondered why nobody had done so before. The reason, I decided, was that as the various redevelopment projects were never...
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Reversing the ferret: affordable housing at Battersea Power Station
The Evening Standard, usually a reliable cheerleader of the Battersea Power Station redevelopment, reports that the already limited affordable housing commitment is being slashed in half. The argument...
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