Monday, 29 February 2016

What we should do about the Calais Jungle

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"Lots of folks back East, they say, is leavin' home every day, Beatin' the hot old dusty way to t...
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Monday, 22 February 2016

Gove and Johnson's coup attempt

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Watching the strange Saturday news coverage of the government dividing before our very eyes was a strange, phantasmagorical experience. The ...
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Monday, 15 February 2016

The way to succeed is sometimes sideways

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I was speaking at an energetic event last week at the RSA about people-shaped localism , an excellent title, which I wish I had thought of m...
Monday, 8 February 2016

The stupidisation of Southern Water (and many others)

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I moved house to Sussex nearly 18 months ago. None of the public services I used found it easy to grasp this idea. Some proved incompetent; ...
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Thursday, 4 February 2016

An unprecedented moment of fear in the UK

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It was Saturday 6 April 1895. The weather was windy and drizzly as the passengers packed onto the quayside at Dover to catch the steam packe...
Monday, 1 February 2016

The insanity of high densities and the struggle to limit London

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The leader of Richmond Council, a Conservative these days, has warned that London is set to become a mega-city on the scale of Rio or Karach...
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Monday, 25 January 2016

The five political sins of middle England

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It is six months now since my book How to Be English was published, and I have seen it around on bookshop tables more than my books are usu...
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