Bradford Degeneration Correct but not Politically Correct

This article in The Times seems to suggest so .... finally an admission that things are going very slowly indeed and that Broadway isn't going to start in January 2007 as the T&A has maintained recently. I like the bit about there being no where people actually want to live despite all the hundreds of city-living prison cells that have been built and the thousands proposed, the fact is without decent shops, bars and restaurants city centre living is broadly comparable to a prison camp.

Never forget the symbol of the 2020 vision for Bradford is a BLIND smiley.

If you think I'm joking about prison cells the market for city centre buy to let pokey-holes is about to crash as the smart money rushes into building luxury nicks for the up-market blagger and blinged up dealers. Yep they've finally worked out what to do with the tax dodge old Gordon introduced last time round .... real estate investment trusts are just the thing for building more prisons. I can see some interesting dilemmas over whether an investor (because a not insignificant portion of the money now going into buy to let is the proceeds of drug dealing and similar vices) should be allowed to serve his term in the penthouse suite of his own jail.