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Mira Bar Hillel

@mirabarhillel

Mira Bar-Hillel is a freelance journalist

Brian Sewell, art critic
Comment

I can’t say Brian Sewell was my friend, but we were allies

Air pollution in London has reached illegally high levels
Comment

Boris Johnson is planning a cruise ship terminal for London - but what

Comment

Smash Britain's parking meters? Now there's a clever idea

Backlash: the Brixton, south London, branch of Foxtons was attacked in April
Property

Foxtons: A perfect metaphor for how society continues to change for

Comment

Say goodbye to the idea of there being a 'property ladder' in London

Comment

Right to Buy: Back to Thatcherism, with a far-fetched and unrealistic

In his speech at Warwick University today, Ed Miliband pledged to abolish non-dom tax status
Comment

If Labour is serious about tax avoidance then why are they only going

An Israeli flag flies in front of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim on the outskirts of Jerusalem in 2009 (AP)
Comment

Where do Israel's political parties stand on biggest elephant in the

An Israeli flag flies in front of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim on the outskirts of Jerusalem in 2009 (AP)
Comment

Where do Israel's political parties stand on biggest elephant in the

Comment

Medical marijuana could put an end to my constant pain, but I can't

A residential tower block in an area of Southwark with a high concentration of social housing
Comment

We desperately need to solve our housing crisis, but rent controls are

Boris Johnson argued that he could perform both roles as MP and Mayor
Comment

Boris Johnson has revealed his true colours and taken a brick to

The BBC headquarters at New Broadcasting House is illuminated at night in London, England.
Comment

We can no longer justify paying the licence fee when the BBC wastes so

Comment

We can no longer justify paying the licence fee when the BBC wastes so

The BBC headquarters at New Broadcasting House is illuminated at night in London, England.
Israeli President Shimon Peres stands next British Prime Minister David Cameron as he signs the guestbook during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential compound in Jerusalem on March 12, 2014.
Comment

The truth about the UK's pro-Israel lobbies

Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian protester following a demonstration
Comment

Anti-Semitism? It's Israel's critics who need protection

A Palestinian man carries the body of a one-year-old baby Noha Mesleh, who died of wounds sustained after a UN school in Beit Hanun was hit by an Israeli tank shell
Comment

Gaza is too busy burying its children to report on injured owls

Demonstrators march through the streets from outside the Israeli embassy in central London on July 26, 2014, calling for an end to violence in Gaza.
Comment

Conflating criticism of state of Israel with anti-Semitism is not new

Demonstrators march through the streets from outside the Israeli embassy in central London on July 26, 2014, calling for an end to violence in Gaza.
Comment

Conflating criticism of state of Israel with anti-Semitism is not new

Palestinians paramedics lift the body of a man from the Al Shejaeiya neighbourhood, during a brief period of ceasefire requested by local rescue forces to retrieve dead and wounded from the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood in east Gaza City
Comment

It's no longer so easy to get away with murder in the age of social

A Palestinian man reads a leaflet dropped by Israeli Defense Forces over the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood in east Gaza. The paper says residents of the area are supposed to leave the area immediately and seek shelter in the center of Gaza City before the Isra
Comment

As a child growing up in Israel, I saw how Palestinians became

Left: Palestinians carry the body of three-year-old Mohammed Mnassrah; Right: Ayelet Shaked, a member of the Jewish Home party in Israel's Knesset
Voices

Why I'm on the brink of burning my Israeli passport

Tariq Khdeir is greeted by his mother after being released from jail in Jerusalem. An Israeli judge released from jail and placed under house arrest the 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent whose apparent beating by Israeli police in East Jerusalem
Comment

Even when it brutalises one of its own US is helpless against Israel

sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) eulogizes three Israeli teens who were abducted and killed in the occupied West Bank, Gil-Ad Shaer, US-Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, during their joint funeral in the Israeli
Comment

Benjamin Netanyahu's lack of mercy encouraging Israelis to take

Comment

We’re spending less on food – and perhaps, at last, catching up

Riverlight: A 15th-floor, five-bedroom flat costs £9m - four times the price of big period houses with gardens in nearby neighbourhoods
Architecture

What does the skyrocketing price of property in the capital mean for

Comment

Top marks for rental market reform but ditch the Old Labour rhetoric

Comment

We’re spending less on food – and perhaps, at last, catching up

Riverlight: A 15th-floor, five-bedroom flat costs £9m - four times the price of big period houses with gardens in nearby neighbourhoods
Architecture

What does the skyrocketing price of property in the capital mean for

Comment

Top marks for rental market reform but ditch the Old Labour rhetoric

Battersea Power Station
Comment

Property boom! There's no buying power for the poor in Battersea

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Property boom! There's no buying power for the poor in Battersea

Battersea Power Station
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There’s no buying power for the poor in Battersea

Comment

Bubble or no, it's a great time to be an estate agent

Mr Gove has spent much of his political career insisting that he is the not the man for the job of Prime Minister
Comment

The Education Secretary's sensitivity on Jewish issues is nothing new

Workers inspect one of the 30-storey Red Road residential blocks in north Glasgow
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Why I'll be celebrating the demolition of Glasgow's Red Road tower

Workers inspect one of the 30-storey Red Road residential blocks in north Glasgow
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Why I'll be celebrating the demolition of Glasgow's Red Road tower

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Olmert's ambition stood out, but the corruption was yet to come

A man walks in late afternoon sunshine on the Heygate housing estate near Elephant and Castle on February 11, 2010 in London, England.
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When councils shroud deals with developers in secrecy, you get that

Comment

What a future Labour government should do with ghost houses

HS2’s under-fire rail line, as it might look crossing the Birmingham and Fazeley canal
Comment

In search of financial support for flood victims and defences? Divert

The pinnacle of The Shard
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Why the Shard stands proud – but empty

Mount Pleasant, one of the development sites owned by the Royal Mail Group
Comment

Mount Unpleasant: How the Royal Mail Group will make a fortune from

Experts warn of a ‘notably strong’ property market and the creation of a new bubble
Comment

A bubble? No, this is a toxic housing crisis

On guard: Ariel Sharon as a commander in the 1948 war of independence
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I shall mourn Ariel Sharon's life, not his death

Britain's Prince Charles and the Israeli Ambassador Daniel Taub
Comment

Will Prince Charles, the 'Defender of Faiths', stand up for Christians

Prime Minister Netanyahu did not attend the memorial service of Nelson Mandela
Comment

Israel and Apartheid: Confused? You will be

Comment

The EU has retired it's 'working definition' of anti-Semitism – it's

Comment

The EU has retired it's 'working definition' of anti-Semitism – it's

A man walks in late afternoon sunshine on the Heygate housing estate near Elephant and Castle on February 11, 2010 in London, England.
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What even is affordable housing?

Comment

The misery induced by a rogue planning decision in Redbridge

Iveson and comrades: he always wore a white scarf in case he was shot down over Germany. 'I don’t want them to think we’re scruffs,' he would say
Obituaries

Tony Iveson: Second World War pilot who served in the Battle of

Iveson and comrades: he always wore a white scarf in case he was shot down over Germany. 'I don’t want them to think we’re scruffs,' he would say
Obituaries

Tony Iveson: Second World War pilot who served in the Battle of

Iveson and comrades: he always wore a white scarf in case he was shot down over Germany. 'I don’t want them to think we’re scruffs,' he would say
Obituaries

Tony Iveson: Second World War pilot who served in the Battle of

Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid (Getty)
Comment

An architectural puzzle: Why is Zaha Hadid building the Iraqi

Comment

When will we have a government that really cares about housing for the

Comment

New Homes Bonus scheme: Why there’s more to property than a home of

Barack Obama with Benjamin Netanyahu outside the White House last year
Comment

Israel and the US: Drawing up lines of allegiance

London Mayor Boris Johnson in Hong Kong on the final day of a week long visit to China to promote trade between the far east and London
Comment

What is Boris Johnson talking about? London needs new homes, not

Housing in south London
Comment

This infernal Help to Buy Scheme will only widen the North/South

Comment

Why has David Cameron decided to bring up the Right to Buy scheme

Only 34 per cent of first-time buyers in the UK were able to buy their home without any extra help last year
Comment

Help to Buy: The government scam of a lifetime

Comment

The Daily Mail's feature on Ralph Miliband was many things; but

Comment

Help to Buy will help the haves, not the have-nots

Murray invested in plans to turn Cherkley Court, Surrey, into a spa and golf resort
Home News

Out! Andy Murray set to lose £500,000 as High Court quashes plans

Home News

Out! Andy Murray set to lose £500,000 as High Court quashes plans

Murray invested in plans to turn Cherkley Court, Surrey, into a spa and golf resort
Commentators

Forget trust, it’s results that matter

Commentators

Forget trust, it’s results that matter

Comment

Why Prince Charles is right about architecture

British press magnate Lord Beaverbrook, former owner of Cherkley Court
Home News

Judge blocks attempts to open luxury golf course on Green Belt land in

British press magnate Lord Beaverbrook, former owner of Cherkley Court
Home News

Judge blocks attempts to open luxury golf course on Green Belt land in

British press magnate Lord Beaverbrook, former owner of Cherkley Court
Home News

Judge blocks attempts to open luxury golf course on Green Belt land in

Comment

The stitch-up that keeps homes unaffordable

Business News

Malaysians win the battle for Battersea Power Station

Business News

London slips down rankings of world's most expensive cities

Cornwall Terrace, in London, where every home sold has reportedly gone to an offshore company, reducing the tax burden for buyers
Tax

Figures show rich homeowners avoiding billions in stamp duty

Business Analysis & Features

Barclay brothers in hotels dust-up

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