Tag: Housing

Total Results: 139


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06/23/2021 - 1:05am

How Boris can save the Blue Wall If he picks the right cities to build on, the PM will swerve Tory revolt

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, October 21

21.10

It’s the end of the line for Britain’s industrial heritage The magnificent railway works at Horwich in Lancashire are being absorbed into suburban sprawl

Jonathan Glancey

Monday, June 15

15.06

How to rescue Generation Rent Now is the time to change the house-building system, not subsidise it

Peter Franklin

Thursday, June 11

11.06

Bristol’s woke hypocrisy The city's deep inequalities are ignored by activists in favour of headline-grabbing stunts

James Bloodworth

Tuesday, June 9

09.06

Is it time to move to Milton Keynes? The subject of so much mockery over the decades is apparently the perfect post-Covid city

Jonn Elledge

Tuesday, May 19

19.05

Up the workers: how Covid reset society’s values After decades of disdain for working people, their worth has risen rapidly. Will we back up our words with action?

Jenny McCartney

Monday, May 11

11.05

Not so rosy: the legacy of the Coalition government There were five mistakes made during the Cameron-Clegg years that we simply cannot afford to make again

Peter Franklin

Monday, December 9

09.12

Can Dominic Raab cling on to Esher? Such is the country's current state of political flux that the Tory tradition could be under threat in a slab of rock-solid Surrey

Ian Birrell

Friday, October 4

04.10

How communities lost their soul In a globalised world 'place' matters more than ever — yet most people feel they have no control over their towns

Nicholas Boys Smith

Monday, September 23

23.09

Singapore-on-Thames? Yes please! The Singaporeans understand what the British and Americans don’t: enabling home ownership is not the same thing as encouraging property speculation.

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, August 21

21.08

Boris’s stimulus stunt

Peter Franklin

Tuesday, August 20

20.08

How Cornwall took back control Why a slump in house construction is a good sign for St Ives

Peter Franklin