Gavin Scott's Blog

Just as a great plan for the Great Park to replace Santa Monica Airport is published, a proposal for 3,000 houses on the site threatens to derail it. Here’s the story.      

I recently made a video about e-bike safety with a wonderful production company called Image and Noise, and I’m delighted with the result, which I think is very funny – and hopefully useful.  

A chance to begin building a Great Family Park on Santa Monica Airport even before it closes in 2028.    

After the successful rally on July 8  and the crucial council vote in favour of a park when the Santa Monica airport closes, local people celebrated.

Urging the Santa Monica Council to back the plan for the Great Airport Park that voters have been asking for since 2014

The Attractions of Simplicity. Why there’s no need for elaborate plans for the Great Park to replace Santa Monica Airport in 2029

This week’s Five Minutes with Gavin Scott celebrates one of the finest and most inspiring minds ever to contemplate the cosmos:    

A splendidly melodramatic poem about British adventures in India by the Edwardian music hall artist J Milton Haynes.

This week’s Five Minutes with Gavin Scott tells the extraordinary story of Joseph Conrad and the most effective sentence ever written about colonialism.

Discover the man who wrote Drake’s Drum and Play up, Play up and Play the game!