Shock! Horror! Members of parliament are building a palace for themselves at Westminster. Portcullis House, the new parliamentary building across the road from Big Ben, has been denounced by Building, and then the newspapers, as an extravagant folly. Every day as I come into work I see the building rising like a kind of rectangular Roman Colosseum. Nobody asked me if I wanted it. But if they had, I would have said: Yes, yes, yes.
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