Pantomime? Oh no it isn’t.
Dec25

Pantomime? Oh no it isn’t.

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

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Review: “The Power if Nuclear” by Marco Visscher
Dec12

Review: “The Power if Nuclear” by Marco Visscher

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.

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Unfair COP
Nov30

Unfair COP

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

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Five Critical Essays
May12

Five Critical Essays

Offering hospitality to a dissenting view as evidence that the closure of our democratic traditions is not yet complete.

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Standing at the Sky’s Edge
May05

Standing at the Sky’s Edge

Richard Hawley: “All you have to do is tell the story because what has happened to our country is so dramatic.”

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China’s urban dilemmas
Apr30

China’s urban dilemmas

For 40 years, China has been urbanizing in order to accommodate its growing population often with scant regard to the finer points of urban design.

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Housing: Where Will We All Live?
Apr28

Housing: Where Will We All Live?

While the construction industry tries to deal with its economic problems by redundancies and bankruptcies; the big new stupid idea in architecture schools is “degrowth.”

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Hausat? Germany’s housing shortage
Dec08

Hausat? Germany’s housing shortage

More skilled workers emigrate from Germany than immigrate. Of all OECD countries, Germany has the third highest emigration rate.”

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The Dangers of Safety
Jun27

The Dangers of Safety

The official response to Grenfell ensures that risk-aversion will forever more play a central role in the construction industry.

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The Decay of Democracy
May19

The Decay of Democracy

The Houses of Parliament needs fixing, but first you need to be clear about its foundations.

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