All Leader articles – Page 33

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Growth, but at what price?

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Wow! Pop those champagne corks. What a year it’s been for the sector’s top 250 consultants.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The cure’s worse than the disease

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    ڶ control is in crisis. This is not a surprise.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Pay attention!

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Alistair Campbell in his prime would have struggled to put a positive spin on the progress of the government’s flagship school building programme.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    How much trouble are we in?

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    So while the RICS tells us there’s a 10% chance of an eighties-style housing crash and construction of the Shard is put on hold...

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    A local industry for local people

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    In many walks of life, there is evidence that the underdog is fighting back in the age-old battle of big business vs the little guy.

  • Comment

    Not all plain sailing

    2007-09-07T00:00:00Z

    It’s that time of year again...

  • Comment

    You do the sums

    2007-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Hands up if this sounds like a silly argument to you: spend millions of pounds to cut x tonnes of carbon or spend a fraction of that to save the same x tonnes of carbon?

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Rip it up and start again

    2007-08-10T00:00:00Z

    What do you do if you’ve fallen out of favour with the City and your share price is heading south?

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Nothing safe about our houses

    2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

    So Peter Hain’s first act as secretary of state for work and pensions was to call an inquest into why so many people are dying on building sites – 17 more this year than last.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Policies for a rainy day

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    In hindsight, Yvette Cooper probably wishes she’d waited for a break in the weather before launching her green paper.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Who goes there?

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    One of the odd things about private equity firms is just how unprivate they have become of late.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Gordon Brown vs the housing crisis

    2007-07-13T00:00:00Z

    There wasn’t too much we hadn’t heard before in Gordon Brown’s preview of the next Queen’s speech, and it was pretty short on detail, but the message came over loud and clear: if his predecessor’s top priorities were education, education, education, his are housing, housing and housing.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    So where are we now?

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    So Brown’s government is to be “aggressively pro-business”, according to John Hutton, the business secretary.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    How hard can it be?

    2007-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Heart transplants are routine, information can cross the world in milliseconds and modern aviation lets us fly anywhere for a pittance. So why can’t we build half as many houses as we did in the sixties?

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The art of realpolitik

    2007-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Few projects have inflamed passions more than the 2012 Olympics. The process of marrying the aspirational and the practical has put some sectors of the industry and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) at each other’s throats.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Too much of a good thing

    2007-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Back in September 1988, ڶ ran a series entitled “Crisis? What crisis?” arguing that the market was overheating.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Ives rolls the dice

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Francis Ives, the charismatic chairman of Cyril Sweett, has the reputation of being an enterprising fellow.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Reform is a wonderful thing …

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    After a decade of busily making the planning system worse, the government has finally given the industry some hope that it might actually improve it.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Dark and dangerous work

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Don’t worry. If life lacks excitement after the Wembley peace treaty, it’s a safe bet in our industry that a fresh outbreak of hostilities won’t be far off.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    An invisible crisis

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Construction is unlikely to produce many Nobel prize winners.