Veteran campaigner Fred Harrison offers useful food for thought in this piece which was originally circulated as private correspondence but is here published with his permission. In his view, a completely revised approach is required, if we seriously want to place fiscal reform on the political agenda (rather than just continuing to talk among ourselves).

This car parking space near Brighton sea front is for sale for £27,000. Nearby hotels are willing to pay £150 a week for the use of a parking space for their guests.  Meanwhile, bang in the middle of town is this site which has been vacant since the late 1980s. For most of the time there has been consent for office development but the owners kept selling the site on and there has never been any...

The other day, one of our members picked up a leaflet about the Wigmore Hall, a small London classical music venue where, amongst other things, performing musicians make their public debut. The leaflet explained:- “In 2005 we successfully negotiated the purchase of a 250-year leasehold of Wigmore Hall for £3.1 million. Owning the lease means that we can plan ahead, secure in our own home,...

Land titles are not weath. They are a claim on wealth. The difference is not a mere matter of semantics.

Many people are now ruefully coming to accept the truth of the title of this piece. Landowning can indeed damage your wealth. But in the past, land ownership has been the route to riches for generation after generation. What went wrong?

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As a matter of policy, the Campaign confines itself to its specific area of concern but recent events illustrate more general points relating to land and the exploitation of positional advantage. Kronborg Slott (illustrated) is otherwise known as Elsinore Castle, though it is actually a seventeenth century palace in the style known in England as “Jacobean”. It overlooks the Öresund which...