You enter into the chamber. It is well furnished. Wood panels line the walls, thick red carpet underneath your feet. Bookshelves stretch around the room, filled with all manner of texts on the subject you will study. You sit down at the special computer set aside for you. It connects to every data repository you …
One looks at the current plans for renovating Parliament, and understands why it will cost billions. White sepulchres will be built, clean sterile lines smothering the gothic facades. Classrooms filled with strange furniture will be fronted with the usual modernist travesties of glass and steel. Apparently this is all necessary to fix the crumbling stones. …