Have GPs and polyclinics Jul 3 2008
RECENTLY I was taken aback by a “Save Our GP” campaign for a local doctor. more
So many ways of wasting time Jun 13 2008
IT’S that time of year again when a small group of misfits who lead sad, self-obsessed lives enter a house in Elstree for three months and millions more who should know better waste hours of time watching their ignorant ramblings and bickering on live TV. more
A bright new dawn with Boris May 15 2008
Is it me or, has the sun shone almost continuously since Boris was elected Mayor of London? more
Green fingers and ideas May 15 2008
Following on from my article on green roofs, I was delighted to be asked to design a demonstration roof-top garden for this year’s Spring Show at Capel Manor. more
Problems left by buy-to-let rush May 1 2008
MUCH has been written about the credit crunch and the effect it is having on the housing market. more
Bulbs lighting the way Apr 24 2008
I MAY well be bulb-biased, but in my opinion these humble-looking modified stems produce some of the most spectacular flowers in the plant kingdom. more
Leave Barnet alone, Balls Mar 28 2008
THIS month Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, dropped a clanger. more
An old-fashioned British scandal Mar 13 2008
SO the inevitable has finally happened: the London Mayor’s chief adviser on equalities and policing, Lee Jasper, has had to resign from his well-paid post at City Hall less than 24 hours before he was due to be quizzed in public by the London Assembly. more
greener, up on the roof Mar 13 2008
A GREEN roof, as the name suggests, is created when vegetation is grown on a roof. more
Where did all our pavements go? Feb 21 2008
HAVING just spent the better part of £750,000 on relaying the pavements in three town centres in the past six months, I was a bit put out to see them annexed by traders. more
Now that’s what I call a celebrity Jan 18 2008
IN these days when the English language is constantly debased and the word "celebrity" is applied to everyone from actresses with small parts in soap operas to minor members of the London Assembly, it was genuinely refreshing to see the word correctly used in the obituaries of the first man to climb Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. more
Plants for indoor beauty Jan 10 2008
DURING my current time on a floral design course, I have been excited by just how many of the plants used in floristry are also familiar garden favourites. more
The credit crunch comes home Dec 21 2007
IT is rare that national events have a major impact locally, especially when they are seemingly as abstract as the credit crunch and the slowdown in the housing market. more
No to a third-world airport, Ken Nov 29 2007
THE Mayor of London and an entourage of 80 were in India last week, supposedly drumming up business for the capital and posing for photographs to be used next spring in election leaflets. more
