The same olde Skylon?
The Millennium festival is widely accepted to have been an embarrassing shadow of the 1951 Festival of Britain. So why are we risking a similar anticlimax by considering a proposal to rebuild the Skylon? Do we need a sham repro-techno-folly? Or is this a case of justified restoration rather than nostalgic replication? Rob Gregory reports
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