by Jonathan Todd | Dec 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
1000 Trades welcomes the decision of the Planning Inspectorate to support Birmingham City Council in not allowing flats to be built next door to us. In its Appeal Decision, the Planning Inspectorate noted: The mitigation proposed is compromised by its reliance on the...
by Jonathan Todd | Nov 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
“The proper purpose of modern capitalism is to enable mass prosperity,” argues Oxford economics professor Paul Collier in his newish book. “This is a worthwhile goal. But it is not sufficient. In a successful society people flourish, combining prosperity with a sense...
by Jonathan Todd | Oct 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Did you know that William Wilberforce, credited with a major role in abolishing slavery in the British Empire, lived at Rookery House in Erdington? I did not learn this in a classroom. I have not been a student in a classroom for a long time. I did not learn this...
by Jonathan Todd | Jun 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
They’ll always hit you and hurt you Defend and attack Memory One: Jumpers for goalposts, beans for tea. Football and food. Ron Manager, The Fast Show. No one can believe it was 20 years ago. Or explain what we have done with our lives since. But football matches...
by Jonathan Todd | Jun 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Society – according to my favourite line from Burke – is a partnership between past, present and future. Only anarchists, nihilists and teenagers think the past holds no lessons. Only the under imaginative and the overly privileged think it cannot be improved upon. We...
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