City And Suburban
By JOHN BETJEMAN L OCAL councils are being granted more power, and I watch anxiously the results of elections this week. Party politics, which are the death of good local......
Death By Sodium
Public feeling against the hideous colour of sodium and fluorescent light has become almost as strong as that against the ill-designed concrete standards from which they depend.......
Chat And Wirnblestraw
By STRIX A NEW village is to be built on the scrofulous site of a hutted camp near Dorchester in Oxfordshire, and the problem of what to call it confronts the planning......
London Markets
I was standing lately high above King's Cross in the airy, paved expanse of Copenhagen Fields, now known as the Metropolitan Cattle Market or _ Caledonian Market, Islington.......
Down With Friday!
The British Trawlers Federation Limited has launched an advertisement campaign saying. 'Housewives! Choose TUESDAY as your FISH DAY.' Perhaps this is a Protestant demonstration.......
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