With so much going on politically, it’s taken me a while to find a suitable space to write this review, having read it just before publication. But on returning to it what I had missed was that this utterly joyful book is an invaluable respite to world news. It is also a perfect antidote to the complete trashing of the Modern Movement by a certain non-architect, and to the very depressing view of our likely next Prime Minister that we can sort out the housing crisis by creating faux-Georgian market towns on grey/green belt, with not a second’s thought to transport or social infrastructure, because he ‘likes Georgian’.

May the gods protect us from law-makers who don’t understand their brief.

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