What do you get if greed is rife, government stupid and planning abused? Canary Wharf and other such horrors | Simon Jenkins

As big firms exit what came to be a symbol of the office age, we can finally start thinking about building truly civilised cities

When did you last go to an office? This week, as hybrid working moves towards being a legal right, Britain was revealed to be second only to Canada in the global work-from-home league. Since lockdown, its office working has fallen by more than a quarter, an average of one and a half days a week. Covid has revealed the truth, that white-collar staff are not 9-5 factory ...