The View from Cullingworth

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June 2025

London isn't 'over', London hasn't fallen. London just has very bad government
No party, no national politician and few commentators, have done any thinking or developed any ideas as to how we can get a better government of London…
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Why conservatives should listen to Larry the Liquidator (as well as Roger Scruton)
Larry Garfield was right. If you leave money trapped in dying companies, over-valued property and diminishing cash accounts then tomorrow’s great…
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If you want civic pride then you need accountable, practical and, above all, local government.
If we want to "sweat the small stuff", then we need a new life for local councils rather than the grandiose devolution schems and proposals for distant…
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Put Portraits of Illustrious Men on The Office Walls
In 1552, that's what Cosimo di Medici told Cristofano dell'Altissimo to do for him, here's a little flavour of what resulted.
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May 2025

Building a New Suburbia
A new suburbia is about a family sitting in their garden, surrounded by good comfortable things and looking at the home they own. As the sun shines…
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New towns were a disaster. Why are we thinking of doing it again?
All the principles of Howard’s garden cities were applied and, pretty much everywhere, those principles failed. Britain’s new towns, for all that some…
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Golf is better than running or cycling, we need to encourage it not seize the golf courses
We should be promoting golf as a gentle sport that can be played by people from ten to ninety. We should thank the sport for aiding the mental and…
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How the Chesham Effect is killing the Tory Party
If we are looking for a source of the Conservatives woes then the Chesham & Amersham by-election provides the case study, not because the Party lost a…
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'libdemmery': Britain's Progressive Cult
For three decades ‘libdemmery’ has set the political and policy agenda in the UK, moderating the worst excesses of socialists and greens while indulging…
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Reclaiming England's May Day - an anticipation
Let’s have back the festival Cromwell’s puritan work ethic tried to kill. Let’s celebrate life and growth, nature and land, good things, fine people and…
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