Published by The i paper (13th November, 2023) In a Westminster world stuffed with ambitious party hacks and entitled creeps who see compassion as a dirty word, the […]
Housing / Policy / Politics
A saga that stinks from start to finish
Published by The i paper (29th June, 2020) Britain likes to delude itself that it is better than the rest of the world, that the 67 million citizens […]
Housing / Policy
Slaying dragons: the stifling British green belt
Published by UnHerd (24th April, 2018) Oxford is a beautiful place, famous for its university and fine medieval buildings. But it also stands as symbol of Britain’s housing […]
Housing / Policy
Why is Green Belt so sacrosanct?
Published by The Independent (23rd March, 2015) It’s official: Britain has a housing crisis and everyone agrees that something must be done. Just look at last week’s rally in London to […]
Economics / Housing / Policy / Technology
Why battle to save sickly shops on the high street when we need homes?
Published in The Guardian (17th January, 2014) It has become a January ritual: the nation’s retailers reporting one after another how they performed over the crucial Christmas period. […]
Economics / Housing / Policy
We must make it easier to build homes in London
Published in the London Evening Standard (January 4th, 2013) There are plans for a handful of new houses in my neck of north London. It is a modest […]
Housing / Policy / Politics
The housing crisis: a nightmare caused by our sanctified suburban dreams
Published in The Guardian (August 21st, 2012) Another day, another housing report. This time it is Policy Exchange, the prime minister’s favourite thinktank, urging the sale of social […]