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The Right Homes In The Right Places
Six days of debate were promised on the Government programme set out in the Queens Speech and, out of a sense of duty, I read through the discussions of housing and social care on 22 June.
I hope I saved you the trouble, because little of it was very edifying. Despite a background of near-zero socia...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 23 June 2017
The Times Have Become Interesting
Just when you thought that politics had become predictable, even a first-past-the-post electoral system manages to throw up a result to surprise everyone. Interesting times indeed.
And even though the new Government looks superficially like the old, despite the addition of Democratic Unionist Party ...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 12 June 2017
Corridor Vision
One of the oddities of the garden city movement is its obsession with the northern Home Counties and the south-east Midlands.
Perhaps this is because the area was the location of its only two garden cities and the first of the new towns they spawned, at Stevenage. Or perhaps it-apos-s because the mo...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 24 May 2017
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