It is the end
of the year and time to be serious. Diane Coyle, the Enlightened Economist has another
good post.
It is a review of Brett Christopher's "The New Enclosure: The
Appropriation Of Land In Neoliberal Britain" which explains the recent huge
shift in UK property ownership from public to private.
The Bureau Of Investigative Journalism has "The Public Services Gamble Councils
Borrowing Billions To Play The Property Market" which is long but very
worrying if one is your local authority.
This has happened
without us knowing what has been going on literally under our feet.
We have had
major changes in property owning down the centuries so it is not
"new" in that sense. A different century a different way of doing of
doing it.
What happened
to the peasants; could we be about to join them?
It's a problem with practical politics - where should the focus be?
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