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James Heartfield
How to solve the housing crisis
Britain's housing stock is too old and too expensive. The only answer is to build millions of new homes.
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| Thursday 12 April 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Let’s liberate youth from the grip of welfare
Cutting housing benefit to under-25s is actually not a bad idea – but let’s do it for the right reasons rather than to save the state cash.
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| Thursday 12 April 2012 |
Neil Davenport
Who benefits from housing handouts?
The only people whose welfare is boosted by the housing-benefit racket is middle-class landlords.
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| Tuesday 25 October 2011 |
Adrian Hart
Who’s afraid of Basildon Man?
The Dale Farm clash allowed the commentariat to resuscitate their long-standing loathing for Essex men and women.
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| Monday 26 September 2011 |
Tim Black
Dale Farm: good Gypsies versus evil Essex Man?
The luvvies and leftists supporting the Dale Farm Travellers view the rest of us - the mob - as a racist pogrom in the making.
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| Tuesday 20 September 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Message to protesters: Basildon is not Bosnia
The invasion of Dale Farm by everyone from the UN to Amnesty to Fergal bloody Keane shows how desperate activists are for a Bosnia replay.
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| Tuesday 20 September 2011 |
James Heartfield
Shire Tories and greens are denying Brits homes
The claim that the Lib-Cons are planning to concrete over large parts of Britain’s green land is wrong - unfortunately.
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| Thursday 1 September 2011 |
Tim Black
This is a freedom issue, not a ‘humanitarian crisis’
We should support the Dale Farm Travellers’ right to live where they choose, not invite the UN to help preserve their cultural Otherness.
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| Thursday 12 May 2011 |
Rob Lyons
The Cube: welcome to your eco-prison cell
Apparently our unwillingness to live in cramped, low-energy homes reveals our psychological flaws.
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| Monday 1 November 2010 |
Tim Black
Why the housing industry is in ruins
Instead of squabbling over housing benefits, how about building some new homes and unbuckling the Green Belt?
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| Wednesday 11 February 2009 |
James Heartfield
A return to wartime housing policies
What is Britain’s new vision for housing? Bribing council tenants to move into smaller properties to ‘make room’ for others.
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| Tuesday 15 July 2008 |
James Heartfield
Who demolished the housing industry?
The UK’s housebuilders are laying off thousands of staff while millions struggle to buy a home - all thanks to the anti-growth lobby.
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| Thursday 3 July 2008 |
Karl Sharro
Why it’s time to demolish Robin Hood Gardens
The co-author of a new architectural manifesto says tearing down the brutalist housing estate is fully in the spirit of modernism.
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| Wednesday 2 July 2008 |
Mick Hume
Paying the price for inflating property
No wonder a house price fall can cause such alarm when Britain has so much economic, political and cultural capital tied up in paper assets.
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| Thursday 1 May 2008 |
Tim Black
Seeing red over the Green Belt
Green Belt protectors cried ‘not an inch!’, while their opponents insisted that ‘people must come first’. Sparks flew at last night’s spiked debate.
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| Tuesday 22 April 2008 |
Paul Miner
Keep the Green Belt buckled
Ahead of next week’s spiked debate on the future of the Green Belt, one speaker appeals for its continued preservation. Buy your tickets now.
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| Monday 7 April 2008 |
James Heartfield
Gordon Brown’s Great Eco-Towns Con
The PM is proposing new zero-carbon towns to make up for his government’s kneejerk hostility to real housebuilding. It’s too little, too late.
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| Tuesday 1 April 2008 |
Tim Black
Is it time to build on the green belt?
Buy your tickets now for the live spiked debate on whether new homes should be built on the green and pleasant lands that circle towns and cities.
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| Monday 5 November 2007 |
James Heartfield
Fifteen myths about the housing crisis
Government slothfulness, combined with the green lobby's snobbery towards the masses and their 'ugly houses', is the cause of Britain's shocking homes shortfall.
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| Monday 1 October 2007 |
James Heartfield
The high price of the UK’s housing shortage
While commentators speculate about a house price crash, it's the failure to build new homes that should worry us.
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