Nadine Dorries approves South Bank demolition
NewsIn her first executive act, Boris Johnson’s new Culture Secretary has removed her department’s objection to the toppling of a concrete tower on a former steel site.
The BBC says: ‘The tower sits near the South Bank coke oven battery on the former Redcar SSI steelworks site, which closed in 2015.’
One down, one to go.
I’m sure you got a lot of clicks from this deceptive headline. Hands up who thought the Royal Festival Hall was going to be killed ?
This could actually be the ultimate definition of clickbait!!
Well, in truth, I didn’t. But I did at least expect it to relate to London!
Hilarious!
I did Jeremy! A brilliant piece of journalism – the headline is bound to hook the readers…
There’s no need to demolish the South Bank Centre. They could turn it ito a concert hall complex. Oh, wait…
You had me going there.
Think what could be done with that site. A sensibly sized opera house for the ENO (like Glyndebourne, perhaps) from which it could tour when visiting companies move in. A first class concert hall, shoebox shaped. Don’t aim for an architectural masterpiece because it pushes up the cost and the chances of getting one are too remote. Just give us a decent frontage overlooking the Thames. Expensive, overrated architect not necessary.
Limit the number of restaurants; there are plenty elsewhere.
A few trees.
If only…….
What a crude click bait headline.
‘South Bank’ as in exactly where I wonder Teeside or Thameside? And whatever one might think about brutalist architecture, the brutalist philistinism of Government of all complexions never fails to depress.
Er, neither actually, it’s Teesside (as in by the side of the Tees, geddit?).
The French minister of culture wrote a biography of Verdi.
The German minister of culture is a noted art historian.
Nadine Dorries ate an ostrich anus on I’m a celebrity.
Case closed.
Time to head for the hills.
Even worse, she writes books (which mostly sell in e-book form, which I assume is cheaper).
They sound as if they make Barbara Cartland seem like George Eliot in comparison.
This is not a Culture Secretary from whom we can expect much discernment. Her record on social issues and her personal behaviours are not inspirational, either.
I never saw it, but I have a feeling there might be a Game of Thrones term for this tenure.
Mine, in rose-colored glasses, for one.
South Bank is not without its musical connections. Florence Easton, one of the leading sopranos of the early twentieth century, was born there in 1882.