Manchester Evening News is somewhat ambivalent about events last weekend:… (View Post)

ISTR one from the post-covid period about how "Working from home is a danger to house prices". (I can't remember the logic, but was pleased by the way the Tele had managed to bundle tw… (View Post)

Which raises the question: what architecture does look good in the wet? Personally, I always admire architectural renders which show the building on a rainy day. Anything can look good in the sun; it… (View Post)

An afterthought/clarification: I am certainly not saying all Victorian streets of redbrick housing are attractive. There were thousands of streets of slum housing which were utterly cheerless, and I … (View Post)

I was quite surprised when I heard my daughter's school were looking at ways to stop kids becoming radicalised. I had assumed - what, with a radical Muslim blowing up a load of kids watching pop… (View Post)