Talking Back
I'm presenting Talk Back for most of this week. Nick Robinson invites questions for the Prime Minister's monthly news conference, and Newsnight have a web page for viewers' programme ideas; how about some ideas for the Talk Back programme? Polticis, culture, arts, religion, ethics ... your chance to be part of the Talk Back team.
Off to the Sony Awards in London tonight -- I'll blog a bit about that tomorrow.
Comments
I hope to be able to talk about the World Cup, US Health Care , and US Politics. I do recommend one book: "Cutting Health Care: The Pors and Cons" available at amazon uk.
And the journey was worthwhile - Congrats to Talkback on it's Sony Silver award ... and to young Mr Nolan on the latest Sony Gold to add to his collection!
Maybe Talkback has covered this too often already...
Town Planning? Apartments? I've lived in the same house all my life - No. 40-something. In the last ten years, there have been 70 apartments built between No. 1. and us, and there are two large sites still to be developed. Yesterday we got the news that 3 more houses were going for 18 more apartments, and the developer has 6 more houses under offer.
It's all got a bit ludicrous. The planning office publishes endless, well-thought out guidelines and plans: if you read what they say about infill housing, if you read the Northern Area plan - it's all good stuff. But in real life the planning process is warped by the money that can be created.