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Comment is not free

Written on 12 April 2016. Posted in General.

Until it changed its name in 1959, The Guardian was the Manchester Guardian. A century ago its editor, and later, its owner, was the renowned radical, C P Scott (1846-1932). He used the slogan “Comment is free, but facts are sacred” to sum up his championship of honest reporting and freedom of speech. The contemporary Guardian boasts the slogan on its news web-site. However, the number...

Crossrail land bonanza

Written on 28 March 2016. Posted in Public Transport.

Something for nothing.

Roll up! Crossrail land bonanza

Written on 4 March 2015. Posted in Public Transport.

More land value created by taxpayers’ investment which will end up in landowners’ pockets. This article in City AM describes a selection of luxury pads served by the new route where land prices are likely to rise sharply when the line opens in about four years time. Crossrail. as its name implies, runs across Central London, from Shenfield in the east to Reading in the west. For those...

Tax Justice Network – a welcome shift?

Written on 9 October 2014. Posted in Tax Justice Network.

We have always been sceptical about Tax Justice Network, which at the most, has seen LVT as part of a “balance of taxes”, which amongst other things ignores the fact that the other taxes are competing for the same revenue stream as LVT itself. But this article is more positive than most that has come from that direction. If the prevention of tax avoidance and tax evasion are the aims,...

LVT in the wider context

Written on 1 September 2014. Posted in General.

It is nearly two months since anything new has been added to the Campaign website. There has been little in the news that it would have been appropriate to respond to. Bigger events have moved onto centre stage, including the takeover of large areas of Iraq by Islamists, the associated massacres that have accompanied that, the war in Gaza and unfolding events in Ukraine. Our supporters will have...

The living wage

Written on 9 July 2014. Posted in Religion.

The issue of the “living wage” inevitably crops up from time to time and has done so again recently. The notion can be traced back to at least St Thomas Aquinas and has long featured in Catholic moral teaching. The Anglican Archbishop of York recently called for a ‘living wage’ to be paid to all government workers. In a recent newspaper article, he said, “what workers...

Latest “Land & Liberty” goes to the roots

Written on 29 May 2014. Posted in History.

The latest (Spring 2014) edition of Land & Liberty has a collection of penetrating articles which go to the root of our current problems with the economy. The Idea of Property by Joseph Milne, an enquiry into the nature of property, traces the notion to its origins in the early seventeenth century. It demonstrates how the flawed analsyis of John Locke underpins contemporary ideas on property...

Main line to Cornwall reopens – and free riders

Written on 7 April 2014. Posted in Public Transport.

The main railway line to Devon and Cornwall reopened on 4 April after a two month closure due to the sea wall being washed away at Dawlish. Between Dawlish and Teignmouth, the line runs on the sea wall, built by Brunel in the 1840s. It is an exposed stretch of coast and the route is vulnerable to damage by heavy seas. The speed of the repair was due to heroic efforts by Network Rail’s engineers,...

Practical Politics back

Written on 7 April 2014. Posted in General.

We are pleased to announce that Practical Politics is back in production and the latest issue, number 205, will be available on the website shortly. If you want your copy as soon as it is published, you can subscribe or become a member of the Campaign – use the “contact us” link.

New link on our website menu

Written on 24 March 2014. Posted in Non-English.

If you look carefully at our top menu bar you will see that we now have a new link on our website menu – Landskatt. The reason for this is that a lot of land value tax discussion and activity is on social media such as Facebook, where the Campaign has its own group, I support the Campaign for Land Value Taxation. The Facebook group has attracted a growing number of members from Sweden, partly...

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