Eddy Shah is a newspaper tycoon turned housebuilder. He famously took on the print unions in the 1980s and launched Today, the first colour national newspaper. Shah has built an eco-homes development in Wiltshire and since becoming a housebuilder has been a fierce critic of volume developers and shoddy workmanship. He is also an author and 'Second World' - a political thriller set in the new future - has just been published.
With the new series of Relocation, Relocation back on our screens, it does beg the question whether presenters Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer (among others) are entertainers first and property experts second. More »
The end is nigh! Or, that’s what I keep hearing.
But don’t believe it for a minute.
We don’t have war, pestilence, death and mass destruction, or even soup kitchens. Not yet, anyway, not in the areas cutely known as the ‘civilized world’. More »
Well, the government fiddles while UK Ltd continues to burn.
Don’t be surprised. In truth, it is our fault.
After all, we are being governed by people that we elected. More »
The great line I hear from the building experts, employers and unions, as land and housing construction crashes through zero, is: ’Of course I could see it coming.’ More »
When you’ve lived deep in the media swamps and swam amongst the alligators of Fleet Street you develop a pretty robust thick skin. So, when, a verbal attack comes at you from the old Lefty Brigade of what used to be laughingly termed, the trades unions, it allows you to ignore the insult and try to understand why it was made. More »
That is the damning verdict from Eddy Shah, the media legend turned housebuilder. In a showhouse.co.uk exclusive, Shah says the construction industry is worse than the old print unions. More »
