Our guest this week on Free Exchange is the journalist and author Owen Bennett.
Owen has been a member of the parliamentary lobby since 2014, writing for publications such as the Daily Express, HP and City AM, and he was recently appointed Whitehall Editor at the Daily Telegraph.
In between reporting on the highs and lows of British politics he’s managed to write three books – Following Farage, The Brexit Club and his soon-to-be-released biography Michael Gove: A Man In A Hurry.
We sat down to talk about Gove’s upbringing, his time in the Oxford Union and those infamous cocaine revelations.
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As an architect and developer, every day I must wade through the swamp of planning rules, building regulations, financial restrictions and NIMBYism peppering the landscape of the construction sector. One set of rules in particular though, and one sub-set of those rules, grinds my goat so intensely for its sheer wanton stupidity and backward-thinkingness, that […]
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