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CommentSave your scorn
Since the recession simple maths dictated we need to deliver more for less, but as with any equation, there is a tipping point
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CommentNot perfect but good enough for these austere times
Baseline school designs: some may think we鈥檙e selling our children short but we need to look at a system that can deliver in tough times
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CommentFragmented construction industry
If we just look after our own interests we鈥檒l never get the government to listen to us
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CommentHansom: Visions and revisions
This week, the ONS struggles with statistical correctness, Crispin Odey plans to put some birds up in a stately home, and the first post-Olympic neighbourhood is ready, ahead of time and under budget
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CommentPublic money for shovel-ready projects
Central and local government need to focus on getting funded projects moving as quickly as possible through procurement.
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CommentDespair at education sector
The government is failing to cut red-tape, bureaucracy and money
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CommentMy digital life ... Noble Francis
The CPA economics director and 好色先生TV columnist on why he prefers PCs to Mac, listening to Roxette, and trying to remember how he got by before iPads
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CommentGarden Cities: Learning from the regions
Politicians discussing garden suburbs and cities at next week鈥檚 Conservative conference would do well to look further than London and Hertfordshire
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CommentWonders & blunders with Gareth Moores
Lytag鈥檚 Gareth Moores thinks Salisbury鈥檚 Bourne Hill Offices are a perfect blend of old and new, but Oregon鈥檚 Portland 好色先生TV is a lumbering pseudo-historical eyesore
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CommentWhy Ed Balls calling to spend 4G windfall on homes could be worth far more than 拢3bn
The real value in Balls鈥� statement is that he has potentially set in train a bidding war
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CommentONS correction to new orders data adds more black eyeliner to a Gothic horror show
A statistical error shows that in fact contractors are winning work at the slowest rate since the 1980s
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CommentInfrastructure investment
The CBI鈥檚 latest survey restates the business case for continued investment in infrastructure, but progress is still worryingly slow
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CommentHansom: The art of speaking
Danny Alexander defends government infrastructure spending (in the dark) and Mark Prisk invites the media into his Croydon boudoir. Plus, would RMJM鈥檚 Peter Morrison be a good wartime prime minister?
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CommentSafe and sound: The US embassy
A reader assesses the fortress-like nature of the proposed US embassy at Nine Elms
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CommentMy digital life ... Peter Blunt
The Innovar茅 Systems MD on Westlife, PCs being better than Macs and why he spends a lot of his time looking at cartoon trains
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CommentWonders and blunders with Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser loves how Edinburgh鈥檚 Commonwealth Pool complements its surroundings, but is left cold by another building鈥檚 attempt to mimic nature