How would you design the city of the future?

Okay, I get it. We need to attract wealthy overseas visitors into London. We want them staying at likes of Claridges or Lanesboro.Spending money down Bond or Dover Street. We are happy for them to eat at The Ritz or Ledbury and visit the Royal Ballet and Opera. Having done that, they can tour the rest of the UK.

So let’s just leave the cities as they are for now.

HS2, that whitest of White Elephants, as of April this year, has already cost £40.5 billion.

Imagine if that money had been put into local services? Closed stations and lines opened up. Rejuvenated. Good public transport for those in Sticksville. Allowing folk to get around their own parts of the country with ease and comfort.

Regular markets with fresh produce now easily travelled to and small business benefiting from the footfall.

With ‘Made in Britain’ once again on the forefront of our minds, encouraged and rewarded and craftsmanship recognised  and respected…Britain could be great.

Hats off to William Morris for fighting the Industrial Revolution!