John Smylie
John Smylie is Director of Place Lab, an architecture practice based in Belfast, UK, and an advocate of designing beautiful, new traditional/classical architecture.
A transcendent life
James Stevens Curl’s 2018 demolition of the Modernist experiment signalled the return to high culture
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
