Blavatnik School of Government – on architecture and language

This is a very local post, and about architecture, not writing. But it’s also about language, so even those of you reading from over the seas might find it interesting.

Anyone who lives in Oxford is probably aware by now of the fight going on over the University’s developments at the edge of Port Meadow, not least because Philip Pullman has weighed in on the side of the angels. You may not be aware of another proposal, no less ill-fitting and monstrous, approaching the end of its public consul...