Property News · September 16, 2017

Where does ‘taking back control’ leave our shopping streets? In cloud cuckoo land | Ian Jack


As small businesses of character and charm are forced off high streets by greedy landlords, it’s clear that ours is an age of delusionCloud cuckoo land is a country despised by no-nonsense realists, a category of people that Margaret Thatcher felt proud to belong to. If anyone imagined that she would go to parliament and advocate the abolition of the pound sterling, she said, they would be living in cloud cuckoo land. Fair enough. But there again, according to the disputed account of her biographer Hugo Young, she also said it of anyone who believed that the African National Congress – “a typical terrorist organisation” – could become the government of South Africa: they too would belong among the cuckoos and the clouds. (She allegedly said this in 1987; Nelson Mandela took office seven years later.) Related: Londoners need spaces to live, but also need places to make things | Ian Jack Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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