Landed power, built on theft, slavery and colonial looting, crushes our freedoms. It is time to reclaim them.
Category: landrights & planning
Permanent Lockdown
We have been shut out of most of the UK’s open land for centuries. It’s time this changed.
Those Who Trespass Against Us
This proposed new law would make us strangers in our own nation, by criminalising trespass.
Private Taxation
Governments have built a heaven for landlords and a hell for tenants. It’s time to change the system.
Landfall
Our new report puts forward transformative proposals for taking back control of the land.
The Fortifying Commons
In the first of a series of columns about possible solutions, I explore how commons could transform society and the distribution of wealth
Home Ground
Britain’s housing crisis won’t end until we face some uncomfortable truths
Wiping the World Clean
The Ecomodernists launching their manifesto today propose solutions that are both ignorant and brutal.
Britain’s Mafia State
Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?
Common Purpose
What better symbol of a regenerating Scotland could there be than a new network of national parks?
A Hole in the System
The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us.
The Child Inside
Children are being airbrushed from our towns and cities. No wonder they stay indoors.
Breaking the Silence
It’s time to bring the Highland Spring south, and, like Scotland, introduce democracy to this quasi-feudal nation.
Towering Imbroglio
Is the government preparing to dispose of our forests and other public land?
Homesick
The point of current housing policy is to sustain a system built on injustice.
Highland Spring?
Will Scotland please get off its knees and challenge the people who claim to own it.
Political Barbed Wire
Why are 97% of our rivers shut to the public? A millionaire minister’s amazing conflicts of interest give you a clue.
Line of Battle
The line that separates the public from the private sphere is arbitrary, but fiercely policed.
A Telling Silence
Why we need land value taxation.
Hidden Claws
Could the rubbish published in the Observer about birds of prey be related to the author’s undisclosed interests?