The Anti-Modernist Conservative Hates Glass Facades

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Built Since 1965, Built Wrong

Built Since 1965, Built Wrong

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the political far right and libertarian frontier.

The Anti-Modernist Conservative believes everything that has been built since 1965 is a kind of misunderstanding made of glass. Our editor Alan Nafzger, of The London Prat, files these field notes on the Anti-Modernist Conservative mindset, with help from the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the National Trust.

Twenty Things You Learn Watching Anti-Modernist Conservative In The Wild

  1. Has explained, at length, that brutalism is also, structurally, a tone.
  2. Refers to the Royal Festival Hall the way some men refer to a difficult relative.
  3. Believes any new shopping centre is a sort of architectural shrug.
  4. Has a fantasy in which planning permission becomes a sort of priesthood.
  5. Refers to digital signage as the running litter.
  6. Considers any glass facade a personal affront.
  7. Has a binder of John Betjeman columns.
  8. Refers to high streets as the slow autopsy.
  9. Believes any town can be improved by a market square and a poet.
  10. Has explained, at a wedding, that the church porch is also, structurally, infrastructure.
  11. Refers to internet shopping the way some men refer to draughts.
  12. Considers any open-plan office a kind of soft punishment.
  13. Has a soft spot for cobblestones, a harder one for paving slabs.
  14. Refers to the BBC as the broadcaster that started off well and got lost.
  15. Believes any landscape is, structurally, a small argument for the country.
  16. Has a fantasy in which the high street is restored, plank by plank.
  17. Refers to local pubs as the second cathedral.
  18. Considers any roundabout without a flowerbed evidence of municipal decline.
  19. Has explained that he is not against new things, only most new things.
  20. Believes the country was, fundamentally, more itself before the M25.

Closing Note From The Editor

If any of the above sounds familiar, you have wandered into a libertarian conference, a country house weekend, or a Bitcoin meetup with very strong opinions. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see The Daily Mash.

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/

SOURCE: The London Prat