Boring Street

Who’s Boring Now?

Nelson Reed | The Flaw | 26th October 2024

Three aspects of boredom — it is bad, experienced individually and distributed equally — have helped corporations "weaponise" it for profit. These are the mechanisms that keep us scrolling, watching, shopping. But what if the people took boredom back? "Boredom can signal that what we are doing at that moment is not meaningful... It doesn’t have to be an opiate. It can be a smelling salt" (4,800 words)

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A Walk Down Victoria Street

Samuel Hughes | Works In Progress | 28th March 2025

Rarely seen by tourists, this thoroughfare provides a superb slice of urban history — "an unusually complete panorama of London’s inner-urban mid-rise architecture over the last 200 years". A walk from Parliament Square to Victoria Station passes the Neo-Byzantine Westminster Cathedral, a zone of "overwhelming ugliness", and some signs that British design is recovering from its 20C nadir (3,700 words)