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A new era of community ownership
Visions limited to public subsidy of community spaces underplay the case for community ownership.
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Local politics on three horizons
If you think the system is broken, but you can’t wholly transform it, how do you engage with it as a local councillor?
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On replicating and scaling
Taking social innovations to the mainstream is about a lot more than replicating demonstrators and pioneers.
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On the wrong side of history
Anyone who thinks they know the trajectory of our history is a self-righteous fool.
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The green belt train stations
The idea that we should build lots of homes near rural train stations is a bad idea that just won’t go away
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A defence of ideology
It is sometimes fashionable to say one isn’t ideological, but what is politics without ideology?
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Do the ‘population doesn’t matter’ arguments stand up to their own evidence?
Arguments put forward at a Green Party conference to say that population is irrelevant don’t stand up to scrutiny
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Two false hopes that won’t solve London’s housing crisis
Bringing empty homes back into use, and balancing the UK economy away from London, can help but aren’t enough to meet London’s housing needs
