Things have never been better, proclaim the optimists despite the evidence of spiralling crime and social decay. Who are you going to believe, asks Austin Williams: Lewis Goodall and Fraser Nelson or your own lying eyes?
The Architects Registration Board is refusing to allow graduates of architecture schools to register – a condition of practising – unless they pledge their allegiance to the the ‘climate emergency’ cult.
The unsubstantiated grudges, decades-old grievances, personal animosity, professional resentment and calculated attacks in the report on UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture bode ill for the future of universities.
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