Wessie du Toit

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

@wessiedutoit

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

Harrods sold us a fantasy

Wessie du Toit

27 Sep 2024

Will we embrace AI fetishism?

Wessie du Toit

28 Aug 2024

The housing crisis tearing Leicester apart

Wessie du Toit

19 Aug 2024

Shein has revealed Britain’s cheap heart

Wessie du Toit

17 Jun 2024

South Africa’s young radicals are turning on Mandela

Wessie du Toit

28 May 2024

How Habitat made Britain’s middle class

Wessie du Toit

13 May 2024

The Battle of Hastings 2.0

Wessie du Toit

10 Apr 2024

The cult of Land Rover

Wessie du Toit

18 Mar 2024

Welcome to Britain’s prefab nightmare

Wessie du Toit

04 Mar 2024

British Nimbys are unlikely populists

Wessie du Toit

16 Jan 2024

Britain is turning into South Africa

Wessie du Toit

08 Sep 2023

Can we escape globalisation?

Wessie du Toit

23 Jun 2023

The dilemma of displaying corpses

Wessie du Toit

06 Jun 2023

Christopher Wren: godfather of the technocrats

Wessie du Toit

23 Feb 2023

The elitism of the river Thames

Wessie du Toit

19 Dec 2022

The architecture of autocracy

Wessie du Toit

21 Nov 2022

Europe’s deplorables have outwitted Brussels

Wessie du Toit

10 Nov 2020

Why anti-racism is all about white people

Wessie du Toit

03 Aug 2020