Stocking-fillers for Christmas, books from 2025 from contributors of the Future Cities Project My short review of Reforming Lessons: Why English Schools Have Improved Since 2010 and How This Was Achieved, by Nick Gibb and Robert Peal, Routledge. Other reviews can be read here. Few people, even among committed educationalists, would describe many books on education as inspiring, but Reforming Lessons is just that. A first-hand account of the reforms that have been applied to E

re-pub #03 April 2025 Download re-pub #03 A curated collection of articles on creative matters from a ‘design essentialist’ perspective....

The Scottish Union for Education. 12 Views on Scottish education Delighted to have my article republished in the Scottish Union for...

Notes on typography – articles from the archive Scholarly and beautiful Frederic W. Goudy’s 1918 book on typography Frederic W. Goudy was one of the most prolific type designers of the twentieth century. At a time when Europe was contending with social, technical and cultural revolution, Goudy remained an uncompromising and unapologetic defender of the classical typographic faith. (See ‘Goudy, the good ol’ boy’, Matthew Carter’s review of D. J. R. Bruckner’s biography, in Eye

re-pub #02 June 2024 Download re-pub #02 A curated collection of articles on design matters from a ‘design essentialist’ perspective. In...

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum's new permanent exhibition, Glasgow - City of Empire is a shameful piece of Social Justice propaganda...

The ‘social purpose’ university - social engineering by another name. Towards the end of last year, the University of the Arts London...

Edward Hallett Carr, What is History? (1961). E. H. Carr’s What is History? is arguably more relevant now than when it was first...

Delighted to have a piece in this digital pamphlet, a selection of articles from the Scottish Union for Education Substack Introductory...

Is there an environmental generational divide? The notion that there exists a generational divide on the issue of the environment is...

The indoctrination of children in Scottish schools has, to a large extent, been introduced by stealth. The upending of the core values of...

Closing school libraries is ‘educational vandalism’. There is only one thing more shocking and dispiriting than the fact that 25% of...

A new proposal for the Design & Technology GCSE is indoctrination A proposal to revise the Design and Technology (D&T) GCSE curriculum,...

The Grid has endured despite attacks by post-modern ideologues, because it is a foundational principle of effective design for communication. The grid has been central to how we structure visual communication. From the Middle Ages through to today’s digitised world it has been a defining feature in how we communicate. How written language has been organised in western civilisations has followed a familiar, measured logic throughout the ages. Clarity in composition was an impo