The point of current housing policy is to sustain a system built on injustice.
Category: landrights & planning
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?
The Great Impostors
In the name of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it.
Lead Soldiers
A new front opens up in the war against nature.
The Promised Land
This is the fate of young people today: excluded, but forbidden to opt out.
Anomie
Enclosure and dispossession have driven us, like John Clare, all a little mad.
Mythologists of the Glen
A report on deer in the Scottish Highlands is a sycophantic paean to Balmorality and landed power.
War with the Wullies
This planning battle is a fight between the people and a totalitarian model of capitalism.
Making a Mockery of Localism
The government’s claim that local people will have more say over planning is an outright lie.
Terra Nullius
Read the small print and you find that the government wants a total abandonment of the planning system.
Atro-city
As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever.
Forest Chumps
The sale of England’s state forests is a chance to do something interesting. It’s being squandered.
In a Hole, Still Digging
Why does England have weaker rules on opencast mining than Wales and Scotland?
Home Rule
Here’s the remarkable, hidden truth about our housing crisis.
Turning Estates into Villages
How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.
The Propaganda of the Victor
How the poor were airbrushed from history