I realise that the blog is suffering from an overdose of self-advertisement, but for those people who can’t pick up a copy of today’s Evening Standard (the first with George Osborne as editor), there is a long-ish interview in a section called Lifestyle in which the style of the blog is described – no doubt accurately – as ‘a mix of patrician and endearing self-deprecation’. It’s at http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/charles-saumarez-smith-on-his-new-book-and-being-an-east-london-gentrifier-a3528196.html.
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Blimey, I always thought you woz the son of a docker and saved from a life of crime by doing an OU degree….Seriously, it’s a decent piece and covers a lot very well.
Iain is indeed a brilliant but quite desperate romantic.
Vauxhall/9 Elms is a truly disastrous development as you say.
You ARE self-deprecating ! I look forward to reading the piece, but in my view the more coverage the book gets, the better.
I just arrived back from Berlin to find my book waiting. I am retiring to a sofa.
Enjoy it ! Charles