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Property Prices, Uber Drivers: Real News Or Two Twists Of Reality?

29/09/2017

Facts: Falling house prices have a good side and Uber drivers are not employees. CONTINUE READING

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Faith And Social Action: A Dilemma For Non-Believers

27/06/2017

The uncomfortable truth is that the connection between faith and social action is a powerful dynamic, doing good stuff that otherwise would not get done, CONTINUE READING

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Grenfell Tragedy: Lessons We Must Learn

16/06/2017

The time now must have come for housing itself to be like gas, electricity and water: A vital utility that is fundamental to a civic, decent, economically productive society. CONTINUE READING

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Can Housing and Young People Puncture A Heart Of Darkness?

28/04/2017

We always knew it would feel this bad, but all is not lost CONTINUE READING

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Tory Voters Back Rent Control – Proof the Housing Market is Bust

16/11/2016

Can there ever have been a worse regulated natrual monopoly than land? CONTINUE READING

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“Walk Right Back” – The labour movement and young people

22/09/2015

How does the labour movement find the right approach to engaging with the concerns of new workers in our new SME-dominated, small state economy? CONTINUE READING

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“Social Housing is only for the poor” – revealing, unpleasant, counterproductive

24/07/2015

I drafted this piece just before George Osborne’s recent budget (you can see my piece on that at http://www.cwuyouth.org/view-blog.html?blog_id=417 ). Then other stuff got in the way and it languished on my laptop for a bit.  But housing is an issue that never goes away, and the Price Waterhouse report, published yesterday (and reported at… CONTINUE READING

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