I have been busy with promoting my book 'Programmes! Programmes! Football and Life from Wartime to Lockdown'. If you want to find out more here are some links.

My new book looks at my life and times through the prism of football programmes.

What is ‘levelling up’, what are the barriers and how do you overcome them?

Calling all planners in the Commonwealth!

The paths of Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes and Italian film director Frederico Fellini never crossed, but Fellini's film Il Bidone (The Swindle) has a strong Place-Work-Folk strand.

To make places inclusive, planners and placemakers need to understand exclusion.

With politicians asking questions about the value of higher education, and some universities fearing financial ruin as a result of Covid-19, time to revisit one of my 2002 columns for Planning.

The value of parks needs to be rethought in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

My column in Planning in 1987, has a contemporary feel in 2020 as issues of mass unemployment and Council cuts come to the fore once again.

How to have your say in the planning system.