The problem is, you kind of do notice. Because living in England, you subconsciously soak up “what goes with what”. Poundbury is an interesting experiment, a success on some measures and a failure on… (View Post)

Even Poundbury is problematic. There’s a depressing emptiness to it, no pedestrians to be seen. You can smell the ersatz. (View Post)

As for solar panels, they are crashingly ugly, but the government is best advised to incentivise them in cities rather than fuck about with the free market wholesale. (View Post)

Why is convinced libertarian Truss letting her Home Secretary float such daft ideas? If you want to crush the economy because ideology, you kind of have to be consistent. (View Post)

Well, in essence, this attitude is why house prices are so high. I do understand the attitude, and I fiercely love my garden back in London, but I have to report from Apartment 11a that higher rise l… (View Post)