Twenty’s Plenty… For You
20mph. Just because it merited a sentence in an election manifesto, doesn’t mean that it’s not draconian.
Developing a complex issue
While the Chinese state promotes self-sufficiency, there is a potential for the people to take it too literally.
The Dangers of Safety
The official response to Grenfell ensures that risk-aversion will forever more play a central role in the construction industry.
Milano. Environment yes.
It’s a remarkable sleight of hand that portrays design magazines, editors and contributors, who are fully embedded on the inside, as radical outsiders.
The Public? Remember them?
Architects have lost all contact with the very people – the public – that they fantasise about representing.
Stay home, Don’t move, Save lives!
Chief Medical Officer, Sir Chris Whitty is senior advisor to the government’s “walking, wheeling and cycling” Active Travel strategy.
Thou Shalt Not Drive…
Seldom have our local representatives been more authoritarian; implementing road closures in the dead of night. And famously ignoring the results of public consultations.
Amazing Place – St Gregory’s, Morville.
What is remarkable about St Gregory’s is that it’s not remarkable, just a small parish church. It’s nothing special: just one parish out of 16,000.
Review: The War on the West by Douglas Murray
Murray points out that a lot of the critics of Western works, educated though they may be, don’t know very much about culture.
Xi Who Must be Obeyed
Xi Jinping is a state-sanctioned, rubber-stamped, leader with no mandate. Where have we heard that before?