It’s an obsession of mine. British houses have got smaller and smaller. American houses have got bigger and bigger. Yes, I know there’s rather a lot of land in America, but it seems to hold even in p… (View Post)

One thing that I sort-of like about the US is that they keep building modern homes in “traditional” style. I’m not necessarily an architectural conservative, and there are ancillary issues around ugl… (View Post)

I didn’t know that about Birbalsingh. That’s very sad. There is clearly an attention-economy, unleashed by social media, that drives extremism and polarity in political discourse. I strongly believe … (View Post)

What has she actually said? We desperately need more housing. The problem is that the “market” is also quite fucked after years of dysfunction, and a truly free market in housing would destroy the Br… (View Post)

One would thing it would be fascinating to watch one of this site’s biggest luminaries circle the alt-right conspiracist plug-hole, but it’s actually deeply boring. I now routinely skip his posts, wh… (View Post)