Wessie du Toit

Wessie du Toit writes about culture, design and ideas. His Substack is The Pathos of Things.

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1 Undershaft: a soulless addition to London’s skyline Eric Parry's skyscraper looks like a data centre

15 Dec 2024

Viktor Orbán’s architectural ambition

10 Dec 2024

How humans became microplastic

13 Nov 2024

Harrods sold us a fantasy

27 Sep 2024

Will we embrace AI fetishism?

28 Aug 2024

The housing crisis tearing Leicester apart

19 Aug 2024

Shein has revealed Britain’s cheap heart

17 Jun 2024

South Africa’s young radicals are turning on Mandela

28 May 2024

How Habitat made Britain’s middle class

13 May 2024

Neom shows that Saudi Arabia doesn’t want to democratise MBS remains untroubled by human rights abuses

11 May 2024

The Battle of Hastings 2.0

10 Apr 2024

The cult of Land Rover

18 Mar 2024

Welcome to Britain’s prefab nightmare

04 Mar 2024

British Nimbys are unlikely populists

16 Jan 2024

Britain is turning into South Africa

08 Sep 2023

Is the art market heading for a crash? Ultra-wealthy investors have squeezed out other buyers

27 Aug 2023

Can we escape globalisation?

23 Jun 2023

The dilemma of displaying corpses

06 Jun 2023

Christopher Wren: godfather of the technocrats

23 Feb 2023

The elitism of the river Thames

19 Dec 2022

The architecture of autocracy

21 Nov 2022

Hunter Biden’s $500,000 artwork is not the real scandal The art market is a racket — his exhibitions are drawing attention to that

24 Sep 2021

Asset strippers are coming for your supermarket Private equity buyers are burdening companies with huge debts

13 Sep 2021

Is the fall of Jacob Zuma good news for South Africa? Endemic corruption might be combated now the former President is jailed

01 Jul 2021

What’s a high-status meme worth? Christie's auction house is selling Instagram posts under the guise of high art

25 Feb 2021

Gamestop is a classic Robin Hood tale Social media is empowering the anti-establishment current in American culture

27 Jan 2021

Poland and Hungary are exposing the EU’s flaws The bloc's rosy view of liberalism was always naïve

17 Nov 2020

Europe’s deplorables have outwitted Brussels

10 Nov 2020

Why anti-racism is all about white people

03 Aug 2020