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I think it isn’t talked about enough about how half of the London Borough of Lewisham’s riverside has been derelict for 25 years and boarded up for 17 years. After 25 years of planning, nothing has yet been built. However, I saw this advert recently, and looks like the one

Based on our wider polling, I’m pretty sure that most people would prefer something closer to this to what they’ve been given.

One of worst designed if not worst designed new “settlement” I have ever visited. Ugly station surrounded by car parks & wide highways immediately drifting into low density sub-suburbs. No heart. No middle. No variety of shops or anything when I visited. Is it a town, a village?

Presumably 50 years hence in histories of warfare drones & Ukraine’s war of self-defence will feature as prominently as stirrups & knights, English long bows, cannons, muskets, rifles, machine guns, planes, missiles etc. Ukraine’s forces are the spear point.

I use taxis very rarely (cannot afford them) but I quite like talking to the driver about their towns or lives. Is tech pulling us apart?

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Actually this is quite good. Most Bakerloo trains I’ve been on recently are worse.Cities need to be safe & to be SEEN to be safe if they’re to perform their cultural & economic role.Fixing this (& shoplifting & fare dodging waves) should be top priority for those governing London

Not all hope for the Church of England is lost …

One of the great pleasures of last year has been sudden growth in the amount of work createstreets is doing internationally from West Indies to the Middle East & above all in beloved France. Everywhere, it’s suddenly acceptable, even normal, to wish to create urban beauty. 😀👍

Yup. Choose growth. Choose action. Choose beauty.

God-wiling, reason & duty can grasp honour from the claws of shame

Yup.

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Neom with grass.

Make the world better, not worse.

The Critic Nicholas Boys Smith "This is about a big subject pretending to be little, about profundity masquerading as triviality and about the British state beginning to break as it stops doing the hard things it should do and does too many easy things that it should not."

This is about a big subject pretending to be little, about profundity masquerading as triviality and about the British state beginning to break as it stops doing the hard things it should do and does too many easy things that it should not.

Doubtless it is nice being a billionaire or President of the United States but I can’t help thinking that neither Elon Musk nor Donald Trump seem very happy. I’d much rather be me!