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Dead space

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This is a space that somebody designed but nobody cared about. This is a space that somebody created but nobody knew what to do with. This is the difference between the computer-generated walk-through, the unreal virtual reality and the actual reality.

The evil in Milner Square

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A long time ago, before I’d heard of Ian Nairn, I read a restaurant review in the Times by – who else? – Jonathan Meades in which he quoted that last line from the entry on Milner Square in Nairn’s London: ‘as near to expressing evil as a design can be’.