Last week I slept in an icon of British ingenuity and inventiveness. Or I should say I slept in a former icon of British ingenuity and inventiveness now converted into a Premier Inn. Sitting at the foot of Putney Bridge, on the opposite bank to the church where the Putney Debates took place in 1647 (discussing among political things ‘one man, one vote’), the concrete hotel was once the HQ of International Computers Limited.
This seemingly modernistic intervention in the quiet streets of southwest London was to be the Labour government
