Date archive for April, 2009
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Don’t blame the media for telling the truth, Boris
Boris Johnson yesterday criticised the media coverage of the G20 demonstrations. According to the Guardian online he told Sun radio’s Jon Gaunt “I worry that there are large sections of the media that are currently engaged in a very unbalanced orgy of cop bashing. I think it is wrong, it is wildly overdone … everybody understands that there are serious questions to answer about what happened to some of the protestors at the G20, and particularly Ian Tomlinson, and thoughts [...]
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Dragging London backwards
Prince Charles is embroiled in an argument about architecture, again. This time he is calling on the owner of the Chelsea Barracks project, Qatari Diar, to drop the scheme based on modern designs by Lord Rogers. He has written to the prime minister of Qatar urging him to adopt a more retro scheme by one of his favourite architects, Quinlan Terry. It is reported that he believes the Rogers plans “unsympathetic” and “unsuitable” for the area.
These interventions by the prince [...]
