This is The Guardian.
Today,
the billionaire Londoners who bought an entire town centre in the north of England and left it to rot.
Oh, it's a horrible day.
What are we doing here, Josh?
Where are we?
We are, in the heart of London's bustling West End, I suppose you might say.
We are on Chasbury Avenue, which is theatre district, theatre land.
There's families going about, touristy families with Union Jack umbrellas and rain pond shows.
It's a pretty miserable day.
I've arranged to meet Josh Halliday, the Guardian's North of England editor,
outside an anonymous office block near the theatre that's showing Harry Potter and the cursed child.
I was imagining something a little bit grander than this.
Yeah, so was I.
I was slightly underwhelmed.
I mean, it's a kind of really tired 60s frontage.
It looks really nondescript, and maybe that's the idea.
You wouldn't think this is one of the wealthiest property firms in the UK.
No chance.
For months,