Are we supposed to feel sorry for the old fool?  The Guardian reports: The Conservative MP Christopher Chope has said he was scapegoated for blocking a bill to make upskirting a specific criminal offence, saying he supports the bill and only objected to it for procedural reasons. Chope, who has regularly obstructed private members’ bills in the past, has faced vehement criticism,...

The Housing Crisis sits at the nexus of all the failures we are seeing in the built environment:  power transferred from public responsibility to private capital; the promotion of the individual at the expense of the community; “heritage” delivered through a weak, Prince Charles-approved makeover; and shoddy construction out of toxic and even incendiary (see Grenfell) materials.  But there...