Social retro-engineering with a neo-peri-peri-Classical twist

摘要

I see that lying shit Blair's got planning permission to convert his ￡5.75 million Buckinghamshire stately home into a (private) People's Palace of peace and reconciliation. 'Not too showy' reports Luxury Living magazine. 'There's little evidence of gilt...' Good riddance. I worked up a do-over for the place years ago, when Tony and I were still talking. I remember local planners being parochial to the point of wilful yokelism. Their gormless questions: what's an 'endless pool'; why THREE cinemas? On and on. You'd tell them: it's a circular swimming lane that validates the user's sense of being on a journey; for cinematic BALANCE. In the end Tony just couldn't be arsed. 'Let the squares play their class war mind games, man' he sighed, and simply installed the pool and cinemas in his East Jerusalem Peace Envoy's Residence instead.