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)

My view is that his popularity in GM is likely to evaporate quite quickly when he dumps us to go back to the Westminster politics he has until recently purported not to be interested in. (View Post)

Well you can, up to the point where the state disappears you and your assets. Property rights are somewhat conditional on not upsetting the state, even if that's just by getting big enough so th… (View Post)