Overheard from a major property developer: 'I always wondered where all the people who worked for the Stasi went. Now I know: Camden development control! Willkommen in Camden!' So it's not just architects who find Camden a tricky planning authority {see table on page 96). Rumours are flying that Rowan Moore, departing head of the Architecture Foundation, might be heading for the Greater London Authority to advise new London Mayor Boris Johnson on architecture. Foundation sources deny it, but a torrent of gossip suggests otherwise, based on anti-Ken Livingstone comments made by Moore in the Evening Standardprior to the 1 May mayoral election. There is also the small matter of Rowan's connection with Boris through his brother Charles Moore, former editor of the Daily Telegraph while Johnson was an assistant editor there. Watch this space. And just for your information, Moore's brief Wikipedia entry ends with the sentence: 'He is the best daddy in the whole world'. Moore must have bright kids.
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