A letter in the Telegraph today bemoans how London is "inundated with large numbers of poorly sited skyscrapers that seek to outdo each other in height and sheer outrageousness". So far, so typical. But the Telegraph illustrates this letter with a photograph of a certain blue glass-walled modern office block towering over the Old Billingsgate fish market in the City of London. The building is in fact the headquarters of Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell. And it just so happens that Desmond is currently engaged in a bitter battle with the Telegraph Media Group over the gaping hole in the pension fund at their Westferry printing plant joint venture. Has Telegraph Media Group chief executive Murdoch MacLennan taken to choosing pictures for the Daily Telegraph letters page?
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