Showing posts with label Ian Jack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ian Jack. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2024

More than a million homes granted planning permission since 2015 have not yet been built

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To listen to some, you would think that the only thing holding back a boom in house building is our planning laws. Reform those, we are told...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Andrew George on Labour's housing policy and why it won't work

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It's clear that Andrew George, Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives again after nine years, has little time for the idea that if only develop...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Our problem is landlordism not a shortage of housing

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The conventional wisdom is that house prices are so high in Britain because we do not build enough new houses. It also holds that this is be...
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Monday, February 19, 2024

Compensation to victims of the Jesus Army may total £10m

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The disbanded, Northampton-based cult The Jesus Army is back in the news today. The Northampton Chronicle & Echo reports that the compen...
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Sunday, December 18, 2022

"An adored celebrity": Flora MacDonald after the Young Pretender had flown

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Embed from Getty Images Lately, I've been given to naming Ian Jack and Neal Acherson as my favourite journalists. But Ian Jack died in ...
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Monday, October 31, 2022

A tribute to Ian Jack

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One of my favourite journalists died on Friday. Ian Jack was 77 and writing as well as ever up to the day he died. The Guardian has an obitu...
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Saturday, July 24, 2021

The Joy of Six 1018

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"Emmett Till was killed early on the morning of August 28, 1955, one month and three days after his 14th birthday. His mother’s decisio...
Friday, January 08, 2021

Six of the Best 988

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Bruno Maçães says the attempted coup in Washington this week is further proof that we live in an age that is collapsing the distinction bet...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Why you can't afford a home in the UK

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This video from the New Economics Foundation gets it about right. It shares the analysis of Ian Jack, which I quoted a couple of weeks ...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Why granting more planning permissions doesn't cut house prices

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If you want to know why I admire Ian Jack so much as a writer, try his London Review of Books piece on The New Enclosure: The Appropriati...
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Friday, September 14, 2018

Six of the Best 817

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Jane Chelliah fears we are about to see the hollowing out of the Liberal Democrats. "Devolution must be democratic, and all author...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Ian Jack goes to a county game at Scarborough

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Embed from Getty Images Ian Jack (whom I have praised before as one of my favourite columnists ) has been to a county game at Scarborough ...
Saturday, March 03, 2018

Ian Jack on The Causes of Brexit

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Embed from Getty Images England has been in a dreadful state for some weeks. Lord Coodle would go out, Sir Thomas Doodle wouldn’t come in,...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Neal Ascherson on Heligoland

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Ian Jack and Neal Ascherson are two of my favourite journalists. This is because they are able to bring a historical perspective to the da...
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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Six of the Best 694

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"There can’t be many people who realise their dad has Alzheimer’s from listening to the BBC’s Today programme. But six years ago, hea...