Driving Out Common Sense
36% of pedestrians failed to look properly and 18% were “careless, reckless or in a hurry”.
Paradise Found?
The vision for the new Forest City 1 is undeniably bold, ambitious… and a much-needed response to the demand for “more” and “better”.
Two steps forward, one step back
Chris Williamson, president of the RIBA has made a stand, possibly more profound and challenging than any previous incumbent.
Forest City 1
An interview on Ali Miraj’s LBC Radio programme, discussing Forest City 1, but also the generic city and the broader implications of Big Ideas.
Where’s the infrastructure & investment?
Modern infrastructure is essential for a healthy economy. But with our current economic stagnation and near-zero growth, we’re stuck in a rut.
Things fall apart, the centre cannot build
Lewis Goodhall;s comments reflect the cosmopolitan elite’s general contempt for the concerns of many ordinary people.
Trump’s Chinese Playbook
Trump is leaving behind Western ways of doing things and beginning to read from the Chinese authoritarian playbook
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.
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





