'Cities are more diffuse, towns are more centralised' - this is completely meaningless to why densification helps high streets. Most English cities do not have strong high streets.

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Towns, cities, makes absolutely no difference. There's nothing magical about a city that means that people who live above a shop in one are more likely to need to buy a plug.

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It's for the high street to be a place with people living at density: if you increase the number of people living in walking distance you increase the number of 'occasional' purchases to a point where the butcher, the baker, the Robert Dyas can still make a profit.

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I don't see the appeal myself, but people choose to live in town centres the world over because it's convenient and because people need to live somewhere. Different people have different wants and needs at different times in their life. People want different things.

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Two of the winning charities on Celebrity Traitors tonight benefitted displaced people and queer displaced people, and I was Angry Goosing the vibe in the sitting room by shouting "Displacement from WHERE? What SORT of Queer People? Any SPECIFIC places or Queer Folk being DISPLACED?!"

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