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Listening to Ed Davey MP speak on the Green Deal at Ecobuild on Tuesday (full speech here) I did agree with his sentiments - it will be a long term transformation.. the industry does have to work together to make it work.

Triumphs of 'process over purpose'! We all recognise them when we hear them; indeed you can probably imagine the look on someone's face as they deliver the line: "I see what you mean and actually I sympathise with what you want to do. Indeed, it is actually core to what the institution I work for…

I recently joined Kevin McCloud and Greg Barker - Minister of State for energy and climate change - for a live webinar in which we were discussing the Green Deal, with the debate fed by questions from you.

Brexit is being blamed for anything and everything at the moment, and whilst there is no doubt that the decision made in the recent referendum will change things, if you listened to, and believed all the talk of doom and gloom, you'd think the world was about to end.

So Treasury officials are looking into the idea of scrapping stamp duty as one of the ways they could kick-start the housing market.

The word bonus: if you take it to its Latin root, it means something good. The OED will tell you it refers to an addition, usually to pay, in consequence of have done something good or exceptional.

So our Darling Chancellor thinks that he can wave his magic wand and get the banks lending money to the general public again and all will be well.

This recession sucks.

In an otherwise exemplary performance at the BMN Awards lunch a couple of weeks ago, John Inverdale - the sports presenter chappie - inadvertently upset rather a large number of his audience.

And so it begins. Yesterday's announcement that the General Election is to be on May 6 puts an end to the 'phoney election' period and the campaigning moves up a gear.