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
Where the heart is
The government needs to face down its enemies on planning reform
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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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
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
