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'What a pity': What has gone wrong with York's modern buildings?
CHARLES Moore recently wrote that York is a proper, complete, microcosmic city – a concept familiar in Italy, rare in England.
It has everything: a cathedral, several outstanding medieval churches, city walls, a Mansion House, Assembly Rooms, a Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, a splendid railway station and a railway museum, to mention a few. I would add: and much beautiful Georgian architecture.
What a pity then that so many of its recent buildings disfigure York by ignoring this heritage.
The plan for Coal Drops Square is clearly going to be another architectural misfit, made worse by its - out of character for York - large impersonal buildings and large windswept square.
Main Street,
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Don't think Trump will be getting the Nobel Peace Prize
ONE definition of "annihilate" is "complete destruction so that nothing or no one is left".
President Trump, at The United Nations recently, stated that he faced a decision regarding the war in Iran (which he started) to either make a deal with, or annihilate the Islamic Republic and send them all to hell.
This "deal or die" strategy is a reflection in a very dark mirror to what Trump claims to be fighting against in Iran in the first place.
Trump has always displayed a dubious morality to say the least, but to threaten total destruction of a country because he can't think of another way out of this mess of his own making shows how desperate he is to prove to himself that he is the de facto ruler of the world and what he says goes.
I can't imagine he'll be receiving the Nobel Peace Prize any time soon.
Reality check comes soon for York students
WE are now well into 'Fresher's Week' – a time when most of the girls and boy cut the strings that attached them to their parents and they venture out into the great big world of responsibility and adventure.
Like kids who have just had the stabilisers removed from their bikes, the first few steps are shaky and unpredictable, with many scratches and scrapes before they truly cycle off into the great big adventure of adulthood and maturity.
In the next few weeks and after blowing their cash reserves on takeaways, drink and socialising they will have to settle into a grown up humdrum way of life – previously done by their parents.
Taking their bins out on the correct day, placing the recyclables in the correct boxes, doing their own shopping to a budget, are just some of the skills they will have to master.
It's going to be a terrible shock to many, but at the end of university life hopefully they will be mature enough to fit into society in a grown up and responsible manner.
D M Deamer,
Monkgate,
Where are the jobs for young people?
INTRODUCING into the education system vocational GCSEs is an excellent idea, young people learning the basics of a manual trade.
Only one problem stares everyone the face: where are the jobs for then to fill when leaving school?
Moat Way,
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