Property Rights
Compulsory purchase orders are legalised theft
Expanding housing must not come at the expense of respecting private property
The South African Expropriation Act is dangerous and wrong
It would trample on property rights and endanger the economy
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Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
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James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
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Keir has my complete backing – Wes
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The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
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The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
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The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain