All articles by Steve Norris – Page 3
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Insight
It’s time to take tough decisions
It’s not good out there. However much we enjoy not having to dress up for work or sniff armpits on a crowded train, the fact is Zoom is no substitute for face-to-face meetings.
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Online
Covid-19 pandemic poses the ultimate arbitrage
We are living through the most devastating period in modern history. The damage caused to our economy and society by the 2008 financial crash pales into insignificance by comparison.
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News
Ruling against third Heathrow runway sets dangerous precedent
You might expect me to be pleased at the recent Appeal Court ruling that the government had wrongly given Heathrow’s third runway the go ahead, given that I never believed it made economic or environmental sense.
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Insight
No. 10: who stays and who goes?
When Stephen Barclay, the secretary of state at the Department for Exiting the European Union, resigned at 23:01 hours on 31 January as his department wound itself up, he started the reshuffle Boris made clear would follow once we had formally left the EU.
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Tory victory signals big changes
So after all that, we have a government with a decent majority and a pretty clear objective – to get Brexit done and to level some of the gross inequality that still exists between London and the home counties and the rest of the country.
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Insight
May the finger-biting now be over
By the time you read this I hope you’ll have done your duty and voted.
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Insight
Owning a home no longer sacred
I bought my first flat in Notting Hill in 1969 for £11,500. I daren’t think what it’s worth today, but it will be more like £1.5m.
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Insight
Get this Brexit mess over with
Honestly? I haven’t a clue. I can’t think of anything else to say to the steady stream of enquirers including several MP friends who ask: what on earth is going on in our politics and more to the point where is it all going to lead?
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Insight
Expect an election by Christmas
Not much happens in politics in August. The few decent political programmes go off air and we indulge in what is known in the trade as the silly season – when the aftermath of Love Island is more prominent in public discourse than global warming.
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Insight
Bluster alone will not be enough
If you voted for Boris, you’ve certainly had your money’s worth so far.
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Insight
Hunt’s the only man for the job
As the Tory leadership hustings grind on, the process seems increasingly irrelevant because Conservative Central Office was foolish enough to send ballot papers out too early.
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Anyone but Boris for Tory leader
So farewell then, Theresa May. You are a decent, dedicated, hardworking person who bore a great burden with dignity and fortitude. You have earned our sympathy. Sadly, you were quite spectacularly incapable of discharging the responsibilities of prime minister.
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Insight
We ignore WeWork at our peril
Liz Hamson’s piece last week on great places to work reminded me of a conversation I had recently with a group of industry colleagues about WeWork. Was it likely to IPO at a huge price or was it actually bound to crash and burn? Frankly my dear, I don’t give ...
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Insight
To end Brexit fiasco May must go
Liz Hamson commented in last week’s editorial that whatever other impacts Brexit might have had on the UK economy, it doesn’t seem to have damaged the residential sector as much as anyone might have predicted . I’ve always said that this would be the case.
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Insight
Finding a service charge solution
I’m ignoring Brexit. Despite having been an MP for 15 years, a minister for five and a former party vice-chairman, I haven’t a clue what will have happened by the time you read this. I am reassured by the knowledge that nobody from the prime minister down knows either.
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Signs of hope in Brexit endgame
Property has had a rough time over the past few years at the hands of government.
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Insight
Tech not politics is market driver
There’s no point speculating on where our exit (or indeed non-exit) from the European Union is headed anymore.
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Insight
Brexit-neutral candidates will have edge in any Tory leadership challenge
It may well be the most significant issue for the UK in decades but there is no point in my writing about what happens next in the saga known as Brexit because I haven’t the vaguest idea where we are headed and nor, more to the point, does anyone from ...
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Insight
Fear of being seen as party of the rich warps Tory policy on home ownership
We all know what the Budget did for residential property owners (correct answer: not much) but it’s worth understanding the politics behind some of Philip Hammond’s decisions to gauge what’s likely to happen in the future.