When Giles Barrie, Property Week’s editor and a friend for nearly 20 years, asked me to start a blog, I had my doubts.
A swift search through the internet suggested that every hack worth his or her salt seemed to be churning them out, so why not join them. Yet, once I started to read business-related ones, I realised that many lapsed into either self-indulgence or get-a-life dullness.
Perhaps, that’s the point. Whatever, since it is Property Week that pays my salary and I have no desire to join the ranks of the unemployed, my doubts have been cast aside. Here I am.
In the days, weeks, and, tempting fate, months to come I expect to opine about a broad range of subjects that make me happy (the West Wing, children, living outside London, sushi, Spurs sometimes) and things that get my back up (far too many to mention). Please respond at will.
James Whitmore has worked at Property Week for 20 years this year and is now the deputy editor.
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