Gerald Kaufman
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Crack house crackdown
Didn't think the Queen's Speech was radical enough? Get a load of John Prescott's housing bill 鈥� it aims to tackle many of the more egregious abuses
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The yuppies will save us
Not so long ago, it seemed many UK cities would be better off as farmland. Now, thanks to retail therapy and loft living, we are seeing a great transformation
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No Wow now
St Paul's is a constant reminder that we no longer produce the kind of jaw-dropping buildings that characterise 17th-century London and modern Los Angeles
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Why I can't shut up
The government is embarking on a monumental folly by backing London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The best we can hope is that the bid fails
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America's playground
Was the war against Saddam undertaken to liberate Iraq for the Iraqi people, or to liberate Iraqi assets for US capitalism? The signs so far are rather ominous
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We need vocal locals
Council planners generally put the interests of the community first, but if things don't work out that way, there's not a lot the community can do about it
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We need vocal locals
Council planners generally put the interests of the community first, but if things don't work out that way, there's not a lot the community can do about it
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Ministry of silly sports
Why are we building one dual-use stadium that wouldn't be used for athletics, and considering a 拢300m athletics stadium that would only be used once?
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Stay out of it
By getting involved in Wembley the government ended up flat on its face. If only it would stick to what it's good at and leave construction projects to others
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Cities of joy and shame
Why is Salisbury closer to Santa Fe than Manchester is to Leeds? Well, you'll have to go to Birmingham in the autumn to answer that question 鈥�
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Overseas aid
Far from sponging off the welfare state, immigrant labour 鈥� perhaps even when it is illegal 鈥� is helping to keep the British economy in robust health
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Hell on Earth
Abandoned cars are one thing, but some cities are littered with abandoned homes. Can draft planning guidance bring hope to areas that have abandoned it?
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Houses, not circuses
If 1.7 million homes are 'not decent', that means that something like the entire population of London is living in squalor. What on earth can we do?
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Olympian folly
Everyone is so keen on a British Olympic bid that they're failing to ask whether London really wants to host the games – let alone whether it actually can
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Victorian values
Something must be done to prevent closed listed buildings, such as Manchester's once-proud Victoria Baths, from falling into rack and ruin
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Teaching the Big Apple
The Manchester bomb in 1996 provided an opportunity for revolutionary urban renewal that was ultimately wasted. New York should learn from our mistakes
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Cut and run
Sports authorities are scraping around for money to build an athletics stadium for the World Championships. Tough. The government would be crazy to fill the gap
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The delivery boys
If Tony Blair is to fulfil his "instruction to deliver" he must tackle officialdom's failure to implement policy effectively – a source of much misery
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Shout it from the rooftops
Gerald Kaufman聽- Elections used to be won and lost on housing. This time, it'll barely be mentioned – even though, as a new report points out, it's still an explosive issue.
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Ministerial meddling
Gerald Kaufman - Wembley, Picketts Lock and the new British Library all have one thing in common: government intervention. In no instance did it help at all