{"id":79238,"date":"2018-02-07T23:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bone-idol-the-shard-provocateur-is-my-kind-of-anarchist-suzanne-moore\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T00:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:04:18","slug":"bone-idol-the-shard-provocateur-is-my-kind-of-anarchist-suzanne-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bone-idol-the-shard-provocateur-is-my-kind-of-anarchist-suzanne-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone idol: the Shard provocateur is my kind of anarchist | Suzanne Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nI adore Ian Bone. The veteran protester who is taking on the Qatari royals is scathing, hilarious and mostly rightThis week the Qatari royal family is taking a pensioner who walks with a stick to court to stop him protesting outside the Shard. The Shard is owned by this family via funds held in Jersey. They also own Harrods, the Olympic village and half of One Hyde Park. They reportedly own more property in London than our own royal family.At the top of the Shard are 10 flats with the price tag of \u00a350m each, and they are currently empty. This is partly what has upset the protester, who lives on his pension of \u00a3154.56 a week. The Qatar royals are taking him and \u201cpersons unknown\u201d to the high court on Thursday and also asking him to pay costs. He was served with an injunction because of his intention to protest. He had encouraged supporters to \u201cask at the door to see the \u00a350m flats\u201d, or \u201cmake a reservation at one of the Shard restaurants and ask if you can bring your own food\u201d. If any made it inside he suggested shouting about the injustices and the empty flats. And Grenfell. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/feb\/07\/ian-bone-idol-shard-provocateur-anarchist-protester-qatari-royals\" target=\"_blank\">Bone idol: the Shard provocateur is my kind of anarchist | Suzanne Moore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; I adore Ian Bone. The veteran protester who is taking on the Qatari royals is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-kC2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59993,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hold-the-shard-enfreude-a-house-price-drop-is-not-about-to-happen-patrick-collinson\/","url_meta":{"origin":79238,"position":0},"title":"Hold the Shard-enfreude \u2013 a house price drop is not about to happen | Patrick Collinson","date":"July 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Trouble at the luxury end of the market is matched by an overall slowdown in London. 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