Nicholas Boys Smith
Nicholas Boys Smith is the founder and chairman of Create Streets (@createstreets). He also co-chaired the government’s Building Better Building Beautiful Commission. His history of London’s streets No Free Parking is available from Bonnier books. He was previously a Commissioner of Historic England. You can find his tweets at @boys_nicholas
Reconnecting health with beauty
Must new hospitals invariably be so ugly?
Sir Roger Scruton – The Last Commission
Sir Roger Scruton’s superhuman approach in the last months of his life
Reclaim the streets
Too many of our town centres have become hollowed-out, windswept deserts. But if we make them fit for people, they will return
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
