11 March 2009 | New Civil Engineer

Airports: the case for three Heathrows

Why it makes sense to even out international flights over England’s green and pleasant land

15 January 2009 | New Civil Engineer

The Severn Barrage: calling greens' bluff

Green objections to the Severn Barrage reveal little more than a phobia of major projects

16 July 2008 | Radio 4

Nothing Romantic about environmentalists

The great nineteenth-century English poets waxed lyrical about nature, but they still believed in humanity - unlike today’s eco-pessimists

31 March 2008 | Battle of Ideas

The ‘Regeneration Games’, London, 2012

Don’t let the 2012 Olympics become another Dome or T5!

9 January 2008 | Radio 4

Reality Check on housing and the Land Question

The UK government plans millions of new homes. James comes face to face with a developer, the Sustainable Development Commission, the Campaign to Protect Rural England and a woman who is desperate to buy her own home

5 November 2007 | spiked

Brown's 'get fit' towns: Kim Jong-il would be proud

With its new towns that will force people to keep fit, New Labour is pushing an authoritarian health agenda that will be the envy of tinpot dictators

25 May 2007 | spiked

Take a PEW, hear a sermon

With three new tracts on planning, energy and waste, the government reveals a greater desire to modify our behaviour than to conduct technological innovation

15 May 2007 | spiked

Come, friendly bombs, fall on Brown’s eco-towns

With his plans to erect zero-carbon homes in zero-car suburbs, Gordon Brown builds on the Blairites’ small-minded approach to housing

7 May 2007 | engaging cogs

Cities of the future

What role does engineering have to play in the UK’s cities of the future – especially given that urban strategists neglect the discipline?

21 March 2007 | IT Week

Is transport IT on the right road?

The focus of transport technology policy should be on improving efficiency, not monitoring journeys

8 March 2007 | spiked

In praise of big cities

A controlled demolition of a new report that says... cities make us sick

15 February 2007 | IT Week

IT is our best bet for urban renewal

New Labour's enthusiasm for supercasinos betrays a lack of faith in the transformative power of IT

12 December 2006 | IT Week

Making a tidy sum from all fears

Environmental concerns and contamination fears are likely to generate big business for technology firms

31 October 2006 | spiked

Transport innovation: slowing to a standstill

New Labour’s deep-seated hostility to popular mobility is holding back advances on roads, railways and in the air.

20 September 2006 | spiked

The dangers of Brownfield Brutalism

New Labour’s narrow vision for infrastructure causes overcrowding and inflames the Malthusian idea that there are ‘too many immigrants’