The inscription on Seamus Heaney’s gravestone, which stands in the cemetery adjoining St Mary’s parish church in Bellaghy, the town where he spent much of his childhood, speaks as much of the man himself as it does of his poetry.  The words are clear, and beautiful, as is the craftsmanship that set them in the stone.

London is the largest capital city in Western Europe, very possibly the oldest, and almost certainly the most important.  There has always been a settlement on the mouth of the River Thames, and over the centuries it has grown, inching along the waterway and extending to the north and the south. It is always changing. The most recent major development…

It is not long since town planning seemed to concern itself almost entirely with methods of moving traffic from one place to another with the minimum of delay.  Nothing was to be allowed to stand in the way of the car. Today, the citizens of some of the greatest cities in Europe are demanding something far more imaginative than Inner…