How toasters found a special warm place in our hearts | Stephen Bayley

The squabbling over a threatened ban on toasters at Bradford town hall is a reminder of how significant this small domestic appliance is to our livesIn the noble environment of Lockwood and Mawson’s imperial Victorian town hall in Bradford, a symbol of domestic felicity has suddenly become a symbol of ideological conflict. Officials, in thrall to the Stalinist protocols of health and safety, are threatening to ban the Conservative councillors’ toaster, which occupies an altar-like po