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Trump’s Chinese Cookbook

Jun 22Posted by austinwilliams in Articles, culture-and-society, development-and-environment, education, front_page, top_story, urban-living

Trump is leaving behind Western ways of doing things and beginning to read from the Chinese authoritarian playbook

… there are positive things…

Mar 7Posted by austinwilliams in architecture-and-urbanism, Articles, comment, culture-and-society, front_page, top_story

Stability is good, but the shakeup of a decrepit system has been a long time coming. EDI is part of the problem.

Review: “Out of Competition”

Feb 1Posted by austinwilliams in Articles, culture-and-society, front_page, reviews-book, top_story

A failing Hollywood film producer is manhandled in a street in the south of France and bundled into a rowdy, radical, pro-democracy meeting.

Pantomime? Oh no it isn’t.

Dec 25Posted by austinwilliams in architecture-and-urbanism, Articles, culture-and-society, education, front_page, miscellaneous, top_story

The unenlightened in the audience – those who didn’t get it – were revealed as the real stage villains of the piece.

Review: “The Power if Nuclear” by Marco Visscher

Dec 12Posted by austinwilliams in architecture-and-urbanism, Articles, culture-and-society, development-and-environment, front_page, science-and-technology, top_story

In this important book, Marco Visscher shows how knee-jerk reactions from national governments have blighted the progress of the nuclear industry since its foundation.

Unfair COP

Nov 30Posted by austinwilliams in architecture-and-urbanism, Articles, communities, culture-and-society, development-and-environment, front_page, gallery, top_story, urban-living

The Conference of the Parties (COP) has been criss-crossing the world on a never-ending jamboree of virtue-signalling for the last three decades

Stay Home, Blame Cars, Save Lives

Oct 30Posted by austinwilliams in Articles, culture-and-society, development-and-environment, front_page, science-and-technology, top_story, urban-living

There is an increasing tendency to examine forensically the minutiae of a case in order to find a way to apportion liability. We find it difficult to accept the reality of accidents.

Review: I Wish You Well, Criterion Theatre

Oct 4Posted by austinwilliams in Articles, culture-and-society, front_page, miscellaneous, top_story

This is a must-see. At only 60-minutes it packs in more laughs, more excitement, more invention and memorable tunes than in most other West End favourites