Owning land

Dave Wetzel of the Labour Land Campaign alerts me to an article by Peter Snow on the murky details around who owns UK land (in the print edition, this is directly below an interview with Nicholas van Hoogstraten ironically enough). This is also the subject of a BBC2 programme tomorrow (9pm). Apparently all this draws… Continue reading Owning land

Laws unto himself

I don’t know if it was David Laws himself, or an enthusiastic sub-editor with a sense of humour, but it did somewhat strike an odd chord for the title of his article in the Guardian today to echo Margaret Thatcher’s famous “There is no alternative!”. But I’m here to praise David Laws, not to bury… Continue reading Laws unto himself