Hugh Pearman: How Welsh is Welsh architecture? And why aren't the English bothered?
Sir Simon Jenkins, who began his starry and pithily opinionated journalistic career writing for Country Life magazine in the 1960s, is happily letting his conservationist sideline take over his life. After two earlier volumes in this series, devoted respectively to English churches and houses, the publication of his latest volume on all kinds of buildings in Wales coincides with his taking over as chairman of The National Trust. This means he is now actually in charge of a large chunk of the heritage he writes about. It's a rare privilege. [ More ]