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Our man in Istanbul – and Woking…

Read spiked editor Mick Hume's columns from The Times (London) this week.

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
Columnist

Topics Politics

Keep your ‘dwellings’ away from the greenery

‘As I flew into Stansted on Sunday from Istanbul, a fantastic but gridlocked city of 13 million, southeast England looked like a green, pleasant and largely unpopulated land, with plenty of room to house a few million more. Yet today the debate about “concreting over” the region restarts in Woking, close to where I grew up, with a public examination of the South East Plan, the latest in a forest of planning reports that could replant the green belt. Which seems pretty much what some want to do….’

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Talk turkey? It’s gobbledegook

‘The Clash of Civilisations Award for cliché of the week goes to: the Pope’s visit to Turkey being “heavy with symbolism”. Indeed, in Istanbul last weekend, it seemed to me the entire Turkey-EU discussion is now so weighed down with symbolism as to be at risk of collapsing into the Bosphorus….’

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