I’ve found the key to Britain’s recovery: an orange shed in Shanktown | Aditya Chakrabortty
Journalists are like pigeons: they all flock at once to the same feeding ground, then fly off together, leaving behind only their indelible crap. Venal bankers, Afghanistan, the northern powerhouse " stories are hot until they are most decidedly not, and, unlike Star Wars, the readers never get a sequel.
I always hoped to revisit Building Bloqs - I just didn't know if it would still be standing. When I wrote at the start of 2015 about the big orange shed plonked by a canal, it was with an anxious excitement. In Edmonton, a suburb of north London normally in the headlines for yet another stabbing or mini-riot, here was a bit of good news. In an industrial hub where the factories had long ago turned into warehouses and gigantic superstores offering low-wage jobs, here were people once again actually making something.
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In London a house earns more in two days than the average worker in a week
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