Showing posts with label Oliver Letwin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oliver Letwin. Show all posts
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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Thursday, May 16, 2024

No, Nimbys can't stop all housing development with just a petition

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Listeners to the latest Private Eye podcast risk coming away from it believing it's possible to stop new houses being built on a local ...
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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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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Party like it's 2005: Ed Davey announces new decapitation strategy

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Embed from Getty Images Liberal Democrat leader targets senior Tory seats at UK general election runs the headline on the Financial Times i...
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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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Monday, January 04, 2016

Six of the Best 563

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The Liberal Democrats should cut their spending by moving their headquarters out of London, argues Simon McGrath . "Pickering, Nort...
Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The tramps of St James's Park

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The new issue of Liberator has arrived in the post, so it is time for Liberal England readers to spend another week with Rutland's mos...
Monday, June 13, 2011

A defence of romanticism in politics

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Steve Richards had an important column in the Independent last week in which he observed: To his credit, and in spite of his instinctive ...