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The only party previously investigated by the EHRC was the British National Party (BNP), although Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP, has said she faced "much much" more anti-Semitism in the Labour Party than when she was campaigning against the BNP in her Barking constituency. If most Labour MPs believe that Corbyn is unfit to be leader of the Labour Party, he is, presumably, also unfit to be the leader of the country. But Labour MPs, and especially members of the shadow cabinet - collectively responsible for Labour's stance - seem to have had a decency bypass. So, following the inevitable thumping victory for Boris Johnson on 12 December, followed by Brexit, the first thing I want is for Jeremy Corbyn to resign as leader of the Labour Party, something he signally failed to do following the party's humiliating defeat in 2017 at the hands of the most incompetent and divided Conservative government in living memory. [Extracted from the article]

OWEN HATHERLEY Serbian activists could teach us a thing or two about the value of modernist social housing The two plans favoured by Tower Hamlets Council for the replacement of [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Patchy attempts to revive post-industrial towns are producing unsettling results in one of Britain's most blighted regions Throughout 2009, the aim of this series was to discover what [...]

This month marks Peter Rees's 25th year as the City's chief planning officer. Ellis Woodman meets the man and gauges to what ends he has used his considerable power The [...]

East's landscaping of Hatcham Gardens is part of a linear arboretum it is creating across the south London area of Deptford, writes Biba Dow With its distinctive location - cornered [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Embracing every regeneration project on offer does no favours to our rundown urban areas 'To be asked, as Ian McKellen asked me, whether I was homosexual, was a [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Cladding covered with pictures of knives and forks doesn't make a building any more `local' There are a few words it would be good to see banned altogether [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY The Azerbaijani restaurant in Melnikov's Rusakov club strikes an incongruous note The Rusakov Workers' Club in Moscow, designed by Konstantin Melnikov in 1927, is a strange place to [...]

It's 10 years since the Greenwich Peninsula was at the centre of millennium celebrations, but its redevelopment has proved to be a microcosm of New Labour's wasted opportunities OWEN HATHERLEY [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY What lies behind this Europe-wide mania for recladding post-war buildings? One moment there's a tall building, made perhaps of precast concrete panels, some seventies aggregate, with Mies-ish I-beams [...]

This vast flatpack installation is holding a minimalist conversation with its own gallery, says Owen Hatherley EXHIBITION JAN DE COCK: REPROMOTION Bozar, 23 Rue Ravenstein, Brussels, Belgium Until September 13 [...]

With its sixties blocks being reclad or demolished, Glasgow has never regained the architectural confidence it showed in the early 20th century Owen Hatherley Glasgow, unusually for Britain, is a [...]

Owen Hatherley Manchester is hailed as a flagship for successful regeneration but along the way it has lost all appetite for civic architecture Greater Manchester, Cottonopolis, was once the world's [...]

It's the empty streets and lack of crowds that make Milton Keynes feel civilised - but attempts to bring density to the new town could spell the end for this [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY The 60s estate's potential could still be unlocked - given a bit of the cash squandered on its successor Pinnacles, in West Thamesmead, London SE28, is the Ground [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Totalitarian architectural monuments or toadying to heritage? The choice is yours There's a spot in the City of London where, if you look around, you can see on [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Designers love Westminster Academy, but is what's going on inside really such a good idea? In its finance capital flashiness, AHMM's Westminster Academy neatly embodies the academies' managerial [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Looming financial disaster might have unexpected social and environmental benefits The credit crunch now looks like it will descend not only into recession, but quite possibly into a [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY What used to be Greenwich District Hospital is now a vast, overgrown wasteland Maybe because of the unusually good showing in last month's Olympics, it seems we're already [...]

THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Manfredo Tafuri famously claimed that 'no better way exists of grasping what the American skyscraper is not than by studying how European culture has attempted to assimilate [...]

The article focuses on the prospective reversing of Brexit. It includes information on attitude of politician David Cameron and mentions a letter written by prime minister of Great Britain Theresa May to the president of European Council Donald Tusk. It also discusses the prospective impact of reversing of Brexit on fixing climate change and achieving world leadership.

My Name Is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic Charles Saatchi Phaidon, 160pp, [pounds sterling]5.95 "How sweet of you," trills Charles Saatchi, "to think that advertising copy is written [...]

In 1934, J B Priestley published a travel book called English Journey. In the next decade it was so widely read as to become one of those semi-mythical books that [...]

!Viva South America! A Journey Through a Restless Continent Oliver Balch Faber & Faber, 416pp, £14.99 In 1947, George Orwell published an apocalyptic essay entitled 'Towards European Unity'. Reiterating Rosa [...]

Chaplin: the Tramp's Odyssey Simon Louvish Faber & Faber, 432pp,£25 You wouldn't know it from walking around London, but Charles Chaplin was easily the most famous Englishman of the 20th [...]

Marching to the Fault Line: the 1984 Miners' Strike and the Death of Industrial Britain Francis Beckett and David Henke Constable, 420pp, £18.99 There are many reasons why the miners' [...]

Red Star Over Russia: a Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin David King Tate Publishing, 352pp, £25 David King is, rather quietly, a [...]

When architects unite around a cause, it is usually to save a building from ignominious demolition. When the listed structure in question, however, is the Finsbury Health Centre, even its [...]

Otto Neurath: the Language of the Global Polis Nader Vossoughian Netherlands Architecture Institute, 176pp, £37.50 Few outside the fields of philosophy or graphic design remember the name Otto Neurath. This [...]

Naked Airport: a Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure Alastair Gordon University of Chicago Press, 320pp, £9 Politics at the Airport Edited by Mark B Salter University of [...]

What exactly was 'totalitarianism'? Purporting to describe regimes that exercised total control over their citizenry, with a seamless apparatus of surveillance and mass conformity, the term was originally coined by [...]

One of the most famous of the Oblique Strategies--the set of cards developed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt for use 'when a dilemma occurs in a working situation'--states 'Honour [...]

Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries (1915-1922)--Behind the Mask Edited by Anthony Phillips Faber & Faber, 784pp, £30 Unfair as it might be, Russian composers and artists of the 20th century seem to [...]

Poe: a Life Cut Short Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus, 170pp, £15.99 Of late, Peter Ackroyd has seemingly been immersed in the darkened corners of the capital, whether in his [...]

The article focuses on the myths with regards to the historical background of modern Great Britain. Topics include the attribution of the present status of the country to its past empire propaganda arm, its constitutional crisis, the economic rationality in exchange for patriotism, and the images of its solidarity and nationality.

The article discusses the absurd architectural urban planning of Edinburgh city, Scotland. The various redevelopment projects at various sites in Edinburgh and the flaws in the architecture are also mentioned. The article also presents several photographs of the buildings including the parliament building, toll cross, and Port of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.