Sitemap - 2023 - The View from Cullingworth
2023: the year the progressive left decided it was, after all, OK to be racist
Happy Christmas - here's to less planning and more chainsaw wielding libertarians
How Zamyatin's 'We' warned us about the modern state
Why you should send people Christmas cards
Manchester doesn't need an opera house to succeed
Too often fear of Islam seems the rational response to the actions of some Muslims
Free Stuff Socialism is the dominant populism in Britain
Hot-dogs, bad history, poor science and the curse of the Blob (plus some magic)
What happens next? Conservatives after the inevitable defeat.
Why needing to build lots more new homes means we have to scrap our current planning system
For conservatives, people should matter more than policy
Normal people don't go on protest marches
Triumph of the Fussbuckets: how liberal conservatism died
English local government is broke. Nobody wants to fix it.
Public enquries need a Devil's Advocate
The future of conservatism needs liberal economics. Without it we are just fearful reactionaries.
Am Israel Chai! A reflection on the closeness of modern antisemitism
Cars are part of our transport future - we should plan for this fact
The high street is a luxury good.
Modern democracy should not be treated as a ship of fools. The case against managerialism.
We're in a bit of a mess, aren't we? Why everything is rubbish and won't get better.
A folk revival? Maybe let's just sing some songs?
English local government is broken. And it is national government's fault.
Let me introduce Bob the Boomer.
Rewilding is a great idea. But it shouldn't involve wolves.
We have too many listed buildings and do almost nothing to protect them
Training politicians makes them apparachiks not representatives of the people
Suburbs have won. Get over it. Resistance is futile.
How Shelter, the Conservatives and Labour are wrong about housing policy
Trucks, planes and a steak on the barbecue: a platform for conservatives
English café culture: not what Blair expected
Instead of calling for bans, local councils should try doing their basic job better
Tenets of the New Puritans (3)
Tenets of the New Puritans (2)
Britain doesn't need an industrial strategy it needs a workforce strategy
Postliberalism, economic growth, cheating progressives, muslim mayors and Marx (etc.)
There is no economic benefit to shopping local
Bradford: how not to do regeneration (as I found out the hard way)
Sam Gamgee and the scouring of The Shire: an evocation of conservatism
Pre-holiday ramblings...why the Tories need another Cameron
Why Greggs is better than Pret (and other legends of the North-South Divide)
Why the Conservative Party has lost its way
"Wanna riot?": some old thoughts
Britain needs to be more American and less European (at least in economic terms)
Agency and personal responsibility are central to humanity - denying them is wrong
A tale of two wards: a comment on the local elections
And the geek will inherit the earth
I am, damn it, proud to be English.
'Make Conservativism Great Again': a project doomed to fail
Magic Wand Syndrome in public policy-making
The cultural elite are almost always (publically-subsidised) massive snobs
On the ideology of Public Health
The Guilty Rich aren't 'Woke', they just want to look 'Woke'
Street Grooming: Remembering Keighley
What the Dungeons & Dragons OGL row tells us about how online communities work
The truth about a good society is conservative
Our planning and benefits systems should support families and children not merely workers
Diogenes: woke philosopher and full time grifter
Let's Do This Thing - getting planning sorted needs more than words
You don't get better public order or nicer cities with authoritarian controls
Books, blasphemy and the treasury of texts: some perspective
Notes on the marketing of Brexit...
Why everyone is wrong about English devolution
John Barwell Cator and London's finest suburb
Adventures in the crazy world of English planning
Conservatism is not going to die but it needs a mission - some thoughts
We have too many MPs and they represent us poorly
Bradford Council and Everton - a tale of two failures
'Smart Cities' are just municipal authoritarianism
"It starts with what you see from your doorstep" - the idea of conservatism
How Dungeons & Dragons changed the world - and our lives
What do you want to conserve? Thoughts for conservatives