Thanks for your feedback, and your kind comment.
I do fear that you have missed the point of the article though - this building is shortly to be demolished.
The reason I wrote the article is to express my great sadness about that decision, and to look at the reasons why it is to go.
Everything in the article is factual, and I have avoided making any party political comments. But I cannot condone an elected official taking an extraordinary decision.
It was common in the 60's (or in the Eastern bloc) for a nanny state to be acceptable, and for government officials to make decisions without public scrutiny. But I thought we had left that age long ago.
And Health over-spending is a fact. Even the government is concerned about it. Why shouldn't I?
I hope I can continue to entertain you. But I feel I would not be true to myself if I ignored issues that are highly relevant to what I have written.
It's not as if my views are unusual - even bodies such as the State Ombudsman and the National Trust have expressed disquiet about some of the things I touched on.