Housing
Fantasies of urban order
Gove’s Cambridge dreams reek of desperation
NIMBYs are the real revolutionaries
Think tank-driven Street Votes policy risks trampling on middle-class dreams by bringing high-density housing to peaceful neighbourhoods
Modern houses buyers actually want
Public taste has shifted; the government must catch-up
Supine Sunak is a flop
How can anyone have faith in British politicians?
Bizarro Banlieue Britain
Planning reform in London must grasp the social housing nettle
Why won’t YIMBYs talk about immigration?
The elephant in the rented room
Hope for helots? (w/ Tom Jones)
It is no surprise that the young are disaffected
Abolish the leaseholds
Building homes is useless if it doesn’t lead to ownership
A cynical attack on the British holiday
The government’s new scheme is worse than useless
The Emperor’s New Gove
New housing policies are still avoiding the real issue
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
