All articles by Steve Norris – Page 7
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InsightVoters will look both ways before taking ‘safe’ route
There may still be 15 months to go but all eyes in the Westminster Village are already turned on the next general election. Whatever the outcome, this one will be unusual.
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InsightBubble trouble puts paid to Funding for Lending
I have a wider concern, which is that we run the risk of assuming recovery is here to stay
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InsightNew breed of developer is learning from London’s landed gentry
New London Architecture has a really interesting exhibition on at the moment about London’s great estates.
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NewsAll the talk at the conferences was about a race for the next general election, which is now wide open
If the party leaders could quietly drop their annual autumn conferences I suspect they would. They are largely a hostage to fortune and frequently more trouble than they are worth.
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InsightCarney’s strategy ensures housing recovery is in no immediate danger
The really irritating thing about recessions and recoveries is that you never know you’re in one until you are. If only we knew when the recession was going to start, we could all have saved ourselves a great deal of grief.
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InsightJudicial review reform would be as painless as the process is painful
The government’s conversion to the merits of infrastructure has been a joy to behold.
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InsightHodge is barking up wrong tree at Google and Starbucks
Nothing has made me quite so angry in recent weeks as the nonsense about how big companies are acting shamefully because they don’t pay corporation tax.
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InsightBarely speaking and in separate beds, but unhappy marriage will go the distance
Sometimes, other news is so powerful it drives politics off the front page for days on end. It has been like that for a week or so now, as the full accounts of two awful murder trials and the appalling events in Woolwich have dominated coverage and comment here at ...
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InsightUnhappy reality of United Kingdom is that it is not united at all
So we aren’t in a triple-dip recession — at least not yet.
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InsightHelp to Buy is all well and good, but where are the actual homes?
Assuming you’re not a massive beer drinker, the best news in George Osborne’s budget was that at last the Treasury seem to have understood that if they want to stimulate the economy by investing in an asset class, by far the best on offer is residential property.
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InsightBudget crunchtime for Osborne on housing and planning
When George Osborne stands at the despatch box to deliver his Budget speech on 20 March, he will know it is a “make or break” day for him.
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InsightMore misery in 2013 spells trouble for Cameron and Clegg’s coalition
Having wished all my friends and family a happy new year, I’m not sure there will be much good to cheer us in the next 12 months.
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InsightWestminster must protect London from ‘suicidal’ residential conversion
In pursuit of its much-trumpeted growth agenda, the government announced in 2011 that it would consult on the idea of a general development right to allow commercial premises to be converted to residential use.
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InsightLondon cannot expect more handouts post-Olympics
This year will go down as one of the greatest in our long history.
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InsightMy 10-point plan to save Cameron’s government
David Cameron’s government is in big trouble with voters, including many who supported him at the general election, and with the media who are giving him a caning
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Insight"East End legacy makes London Olympics winner"
There are two weeks to go before the opening ceremony on 27 July of the London Olympics.
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InsightBritish politicians are poster boys for excessive advertising spend
For an enormously successful businessman, Conservative co-treasurer Peter Cruddas still managed to make a complete fool of himself when he was secretly filmed making extravagant promises of access to prime minister David Cameron, in language more suited to a bookies’ runner.
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InsightBritain has no immunity from threat of eurozone contagion
Think about MIPIM and you think about the euro.
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InsightBoris will be praying for a much less eventful Olympic year
A young reporter once asked then prime minister Harold Macmillan what the most difficult aspect of his job was.
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InsightUK’s year to remember could be overshadowed by world economy
They say 2012 will be a year to remember and they’re not wrong. The Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee will guarantee some spectacular exposure for London and the whole of the UK, arguably doing what we have always done better than anyone: putting on a great show.
