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Who’s to blame for our shoddy building culture? on systemic failure  “Four years ago next month, a fire turned a London tower block into a vertical pyre which killed 72 people,” writes David Aaronovitch in The Times. “When I started to write about it the next morning, the most important question seemed obvious even then” - how was the fire “possible at all?” Subsequent reporting by The Times on the state of the British construction industry has revealed that “the scale of the ...

Freewheeling Boris rolls into ‘Super Thursday’, while stumbling Starmer prepares to lick his wounds Its hard not to pity Sir Keir’s plight – Captain Hindsight if he attacks the Government, or a Tory collaborator if he supports it 5 May 2021 • 9:28pm The PM was up at crack of dawn to cycle the Stourbridge canal towpath with Andy Street the West Midlands Mayor, in a photo shoot he seemed to enjoy Credit: Rui Vieira / POOL / AFP Ahead of “Super Thursday”, Boris Johnson descended on t...

LUZ ZUNIGA/STUFF Despite the Covid-19 lockdown, the fallen were remembered in Nelson on Anzac Day 2020 including at Anzac Park and outside the home of RSA patron John Beeching, 96, who flew with the Royal Air Force in World War II. THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of The The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. “Fortunate in many things – in the beauty of its surroundings, in its fine open spaces, in the wise provision of its founders manifested in ...

As a new biography shows, Pontings extraordinary photographs sealed the legend of Scotts doomed expedition 20 February 2021 • 12:00pm Black and white stories: Pontings image of Thomas Clissold and an Emperor penguin, Antarctica, 1910 Credit:  Herbert Ponting What is it like to photograph in Antarctica? Well, be careful of your tongue. In 1911, Herbert Ponting, the photographer on Captain Scott’s doomed Terra Nova expedition, absent-mindedly licked his lips while his face was pressed agains...

Wholesome Life Lessons for All in ‘On the Art of Writing’ by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Last year, while thumbing through books in my local thrift shop, I stumbled upon an intriguing book called “On the Art of Writing” by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. It’s a simple paperback published in 1946. (The book was first published in 1916.)  The book is a series of lectures that Quiller-Couch presented to students at Cambridge University between 1913 and 1914, when he was the King Edward VII Profe...

th October 2020.   A visit to the wild, ex-industrial coastal strip of Cumbria is always bracing . . . which has the observational texture of an outsider’s or tourist’s comment. While it’s true that this area was not bred in our family’s bone, since circumstances shifted us further west after a decade in the remote landscapes of the Northumberland and Westmorland fells, most of us have come to know it well. Frizington centre From the gardens and conservatories on slopes above Winderme...