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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Stay Home, Blame Cars, Save Lives
Oct30

Stay Home, Blame Cars, Save Lives

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.

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Review: I Wish You Well, Criterion Theatre
Oct04

Review: I Wish You Well, Criterion Theatre

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

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A Disparaging Remark
Jun27

A Disparaging Remark

If more architecture students understood what a legal minefield they were entering they might decide to go off and do something else instead.

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You’re So Vaughan…
Jun09

You’re So Vaughan…

… you probably think this article’s about you

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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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German Right and Left United in Attacking Israel
Feb19

German Right and Left United in Attacking Israel

It’s not the far-right, but the anti-Israel left that has been agitating against Israel in universities and other institutions.

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