House-building
Letter to an open-minded NIMBY
Can we find some common ground?
We demand supply
There is no alternative to building houses
All must have beauty
There is finally a coherent plan to improve urban development in Britain – its implementation would be transformative.
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
