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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Convert offices into flats not nightclubs | History Defined

Office workers and commuters walking through Canary Wharf in London during the morning rush hour.
‘Forget partying, think existing. Let’s redeem the disasters of the past and give people somewhere to live.’ Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Your article (Turn empty London office blocks into ‘late-night party zones’, report suggests, 13 July) misses the real opportunity to promote using those ghastly, unsightly Towers of Babel for something useful: housing. Forget partying, think existing. Let’s redeem the disasters of the past and give people somewhere to live.
Janet Tomlinson
Andover, Hampshire

• Jonathan Jones says: “This is where celebrity artists get it wrong: they think art is fun but art is suffering and madness” (Ed Sheeran’s Pollock homage has energy but no feeling or truth, 9 July). Is he not confusing “art” with “art criticism”?
John Warburton
Edinburgh

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