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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
