Wessie du Toit

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

The war for the National Trust

22 Apr 2025

Why China will beat the West

12 Apr 2025

How Musk is crashing Tesla

21 Mar 2025

Trump is no friend of the Afrikaners

05 Mar 2025

The fate of Britain’s tenant farmers

25 Feb 2025

Britain can’t cope with nuclear power

10 Jan 2025

1 Undershaft: a soulless addition to London’s skyline

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

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?

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

24 Sep 2021

Asset strippers are coming for your supermarket

13 Sep 2021

Is the fall of Jacob Zuma good news for South Africa?

01 Jul 2021

What’s a high-status meme worth?

25 Feb 2021

Gamestop is a classic Robin Hood tale

27 Jan 2021

Poland and Hungary are exposing the EU’s flaws

17 Nov 2020

Europe’s deplorables have outwitted Brussels

10 Nov 2020

Why anti-racism is all about white people

03 Aug 2020