If you were to ask us what we would do in the present state of the economy, our reply would be that we would not have got into this mess in the first place. In the early 1990s, when the Labour Party was developing its policies, we urged its policymakers to implement the system of land value taxation which the Campaign was set up to promote. Let us suppose that Labour had pursued our policies with...

An article in the Financial Times reports that landlords are offering hard-to-let shops at rents of just £1-a-year. With the number of boarded-up shops proliferating on high streets, retail landlords have become desperate to avoid paying business rates on empty units and are happy to sacrifice the rent. Chains such as Dixons and Card Factory have £1-a-year or business-rate-only deals on a handful...

The government is now driving through its proposals to criminalise squatting. We do not condone squatting but there are important principles at stake here.

Job creation On both sides of the Atlantic the traps are being set. The bait? Jobs. The rise in unemployment – 9.1% (14 million) in America and 7.9% (2.5 million) in the UK – is causing concern and delaying economic recovery. Growth is the mantra, growth is the answer to stagnation, economic depression, social problems and deficit reduction. The medicine – job creation.