Five more years of Tory rule?
April 14th, 2015
Update 2017 Volunteers help preserve London’s parks as funding withdrawn
Tax the rich: an animated fairy tale
A while back when I was still on Twitter (yes I know) I came across this animated video about unrestrained neo-liberalism. Despite retweeting it at the time it didn’t take off. I was surprised because to me it is an accurate graphic representation of what is and has been happening to our society in the UK since 1979.
It ties in with an analysis I did a while back of a Stuart Hall paper where he examines what will happen if neo-liberalism is allowed to continue to dictate policy in public life.
Thatcher reviewed in the Architects Journal
April 14th, 2015
High Rise Dreams
A good article from the 11th in the AJ which makes good if uncomfortable reading for those of us who remember the years before it was all dismantled.
The biggest impact on the profession was the closure of the vast majority of public sector architect departments. In-house council teams had employed thousands of architects across the country.