Gardenwalker

Are the same people currently touting Farage’s surprising nubility the same as those who once assured us that Boris was “all muscle”? (View Post)

Manhattan proves that Anglos (as it was when these buildings were going up from c.1890 to 1930) are quite happy to live in high rises, if they can be sold as aspirational. The first apartment block -… (View Post)

You can’t make much of a single quarter’s growth (a stonking 2.8% if you convert into American), but I will say that Britain looks comparatively economically sane compared with most other countries. … (View Post)

I don’t think Brits are particularly freedom-loving. I wish they were, and maybe there’s a sub-terranean strand of the British psychology that is, but it’s kind of crushed by the curtain-twitching ce… (View Post)

Why don’t we just insist on maintenance being carried out, instead of imposing regulatory gold-plating on every new build? (View Post)