Land use in Britain will always work against us, until we demand control over the decisions which govern it
Category: landrights & planning
Whose Nation, Whose Trust?
The National Trust must lose its attachment to aristocratic values
The Bulldozer of State
The decision to build a road takes place before the public inquiry begins
Beloved Country
South Africa has embarked on a brave and hazardous land reform programme
Get Off My Planet
Britain’s landlords are trespassing against our right to enjoy the countryside
Britain’s Cultural Cleansing
Our treatment of gypsies and travellers reveals Little England at its worst: mean-spirited, vindictive and narrow-minded.
Inheriting The Wind
Review of Slide Mountain, or The Folly of Owning Nature, by Theodore Steinberg
A Land Reform Manifesto
A new campaign is born
Dispossessed without trace
The Brazilian press and political system is ignoring a wholesale theft of land and the murder of its people
The Scattering of the Dead
A disastrous project funded by the Canadian Government is destituting an African people
The Maasai and the Mercedes Men
A fraudulent privatisation project is reducing the Maasai to little more than tourist dancers
Keepers of the Artificial Wilderness
In East Africa, conservationists are creating a wilderness out of inhabited lands, then punishing the people they have dispossessed
Moses in the Wilderness
One man’s story might hold the key to the survival of the Maasai
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
Hero or Villain?
Richard Leakey’s reappointment as head of the Kenya Wildlife Service is a disaster for Kenya’s nomads
The Tragedy of Enclosure
The “Tragedy of the Commons” is one of the modern world’s most dangerous myths.
A Pox on the Planet
Golf course development is becoming one of the major threats to the environment and human rights
Your Round
Why doesn’t Guinness stop fighting us and help us to turn its land into something worthwhile?