The Propaganda of the Victor
How the poor were airbrushed from history
Archive for the 'landrights & planning' Category
Three Million Homes?
Yes, I am sorry to say, we need them.
The New Coal Age
A vast new opencast pit will ruin local people’s lives and wreck the government’s climate change policies. How was it allowed to happen?
Someone Else’s Legacy
Everywhere they go, the Olympic Games become an excuse for eviction and displacement.
Marooned in the Suburbs
When planning laws are relaxed, it is the poor who suffer most.
Untroubled by Democracy
The consultations surrounding the Olympic Games are a stitch-up.
Britain’s Most Selfish People
Owning a second home during a housing crisis ensures that other people are homeless.
Lady Tonge – an Apology
I was wrong. She is not a bully, a fool or a stooge. She is a comedian.
A Bully in Ermine
Lady Tonge is using her unelected position to persecute some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Property Paranoia
Wealth is beginning to reduce our freedoms
Living with the Age of Entropy
Is a life without fossil fuel possible?
Driven Out of Eden
Our quest for Paradise always appears to result in eviction or genocide
Read more »
Our Racist Demonology
Robert Mugabe is portrayed as the prince of darkness, but when whites expel black people from their lands, nobody gives a damn.
Read more »
Rich Man’s Castle
Greens must not allow themselves to be used by the wealthy to shut out low cost homes.
Read more »
A Damning Alibi
The latest British sleaze scandal hints at a far bigger, untold story
Read more »
Lords of Misrule
The destruction of the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill by the “new” House of Lords shows that it’s just as bad as the old one
Read more »
Still Digging
The 17th Century campaigner Gerrard Winstanley is a hero for the 21st Century
Read more »
We Share the Blame for Zimbabwe
Britain’s Debt to its People Runs into Billions
Read more »
The Price of Dissent
People are being ruined for opposing development
Read more »
Criminally Different
Travelling people are being hounded out of existence
Read more »
Cannibal Feast
By buying second homes all over Britain, the rich are preying on the lives of the poor
Read more »
Move the Capital to Newcastle
It’s the only way to bridge Britain’s disastrous divisions
Read more »
Drawbridge Society
The Urban Task Force will keep the poor where they belong
Read more »
Free at last
We get the right to roam, but a predatory landlord has been chosen to enforce it
Read more »
More Broken Promises
Where is the right to roam the government pledged?
Read more »
Sold Down the River
50 per cent of all the new homes in central and inner London are being sold to speculators in the Far East
Read more »
Ghost Towns
We need stiff sanctions against second home ownership
Read more »
Go on, Trespass
Why are we waiting for an official right to roam, when we can start walking now?
Read more »
Hard-wired Traffic Jams
The Government’s transport policies are being destroyed by its housebuilding plans
Read more »
A War Against the Poor
New housing plans are shutting the poor out of the South-East of England
Read more »
Protecting the Countryside Means Defending the Poor
The Government’s plans for coping with greenfield housing demand are misconceived
Read more »
Government by Business
The new Regional Development Agencies have no democratic legitimacy
Read more »
Building on Sand
Hong Kong’s financial difficulties are partly due to land speculation. Britain has the same unhealthy patterns
Read more »
Ditch the Dome
It’s a monumental folly
Read more »
Priced Out
Charging for access to our national monuments reduces the poor to trespassers in their own nation
Read more »
Enemy of the Earth
John Gummer presides over the Government’s starkest conflict of interest
Read more »
The Story of the Land
We need land reform in England just as much as in Scotland
Read more »
Theft Is Property
If MPs really want to repeal the statute of limitations, they’ll find themselves in deeper water than they think
Read more »
Decisions For Sale
Developers have discovered devious ways of buying planning permission
Read more »
Grubbing Out the Past
Britain’s archaeology is being obliterated - often with the help of archaeologists - yet hardly anyone seems to care
Read more »
Seize It Back
Many of the world’s most pressing problems arise from the enclosure of land.
The Land Where We Belong
Land use in Britain will always work against us, until we demand control over the decisions which govern it
Read more »
Whose Nation, Whose Trust?
The National Trust must lose its attachment to aristocratic values
Read more »
Beloved Country
South Africa has embarked on a brave and hazardous land reform programme
Read more »
Get Off My Planet
Britain’s landlords are trespassing against our right to enjoy the countryside
Read more »
Britain’s Cultural Cleansing
Our treatment of gypsies and travellers reveals Little England at its worst: mean-spirited, vindictive and narrow-minded.
Read more »
Inheriting The Wind
Review of Slide Mountain, or The Folly of Owning Nature, by Theodore Steinberg
Read more »
A Land Reform Manifesto
A new campaign is born
Read more »
Dispossessed without trace
The Brazilian press and political system is ignoring a wholesale theft of land and the murder of its people
Read more »
The Scattering of the Dead
A disastrous project funded by the Canadian Government is destituting an African people
Read more »
The Maasai and the Mercedes Men
A fraudulent privatisation project is reducing the Maasai to little more than tourist dancers
Read more »
Keepers of the Artificial Wilderness
In East Africa, conservationists are creating a wilderness out of inhabited lands, then punishing the people they have dispossessed
Read more »
Moses in the Wilderness
One man’s story might hold the key to the survival of the Maasai
Read more »
Fire in a Box
Britain’s protest movements have emerged in response to the enclosure of the land, the mind and political power. They are seeking to recover the freedom all of us have lost
Read more »
Hero or Villain?
Richard Leakey’s reappointment as head of the Kenya Wildlife Service is a disaster for Kenya’s nomads
Read more »
The Tragedy of Enclosure
The “Tragedy of the Commons” is one of the modern world’s most dangerous myths.
Read more »
A Pox on the Planet
Golf course development is becoming one of the major threats to the environment and human rights
Read more »
The Bulldozer of State
The decision to build a road takes place before the public inquiry begins
Read more »
Your Round
Why doesn’t Guinness stop fighting us and help us to turn its land into something worthwhile?
Read more »