The restoration work to Big Ben and the Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament, which began last Monday will take for four years to complete and has provoked a flurry of media interest because of the pearl-clutching response of some MPs to the news. Here’s a piece I wrote for the Guardian about it.
There has also been coverage of my comments on the restoration at Westminster by Gavin Stamp for Apollo Magazine, on CBC News, and I was interviewed by Andrew Bomford for a feature on Big Ben for the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 (feature begins 51:00 minutes in).
All of this feels a bit odd, as I’m still getting used to commentating freely on Parliamentary news after 23 years of having to remain silent myself…
