Author Big Capital & Ground Control. Work at UEL. New book on the global housing crisis, Penguin 2027 @annaminton.bsky.social
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My piece on Grenfell, five years on
The media lapped up the narrative of a poverty-stricken tower block ghetto, but Grenfell was a much-loved place to live | @AnnaMinton unherd.com/2022/06/grenfell-…
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The case for Ed Miliband as Chancellor
If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be | New Scientist newscientist.com/article/253…
My @guardian piece on what the UK can learn from Mamdani about how to frame wealth taxes: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
My @guardian piece on what the UK can learn from Mamdani about how to frame wealth taxes theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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The kind of ‘out of the box’ thinking we need.
I've written about how @AndyBurnhamGM or @ZackPolanski can stop worrying about bond vigilantes' veto on big, transformative ambitions.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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This is the development JP Morgan have already demanded they pay no local taxes on. Lest you be under illusions as to who makes the decisions round here.
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JP Morgan boss threatens to axe £3bn UK investment if Labour lurches to the left with Starmer replacement
lbc.co.uk/article/jp-morgan-…
Very happy to be part of this great radio series featuring never heard before lectures from Stuart Hall
On Wednesdays, I’m hosting a ten-part radio series on English Culture through the mind of Professor Stuart Hall @ResonanceFM
Features never-before-heard recordings from lectures delivered in the mid-1980s - the height of Thatcherism.
11am-midday (BST)
resonancefm.com
Congratulations to my cousin Professor Ollie Minton @drol007
We are happy to introduce the new clinical editor for #Commentary: Professor @drol007👏
He said: ‘I have been an active member of the college for some time and a doctor for even longer, so am delighted to contribute to its voice and that of medicine with the Commentary role as clinical editor.’
📚You can also get involved: join the Advisory Group to support the magazine’s future content and direction: ow.ly/j8lk50XLyOa
ALT Professor Ollie Minton
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Well!!! Once a Murdoch hack and a Robbie Gibb pal always a Murdoch hack and a Robbie Gibb pal I guess …. This whole BBC nonsense has been a right wing stitch up from start to finish. EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quotes thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball…
Please join us for this important conference on Housing, Power and Property at the University of East London @UEL_News on December 12th. Free to attend but please register
NEW: public event 'Housing, Power and Property'
A packed day with excellent speakers:
+ @AnnaMinton , author of Big Capital: Who is London For?
+Isaac Rose, author of The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis
+ @jemgilbert , author of Hegemony Now
+ Councillor Aydin Dikerdem, Wandsworth Borough Council
+ Abi O’Connor, University of Sheffield
+ Beth Stratford, University College London
+ Charlie Winstanley, author of Bricking It: The UK Housing Crisis and the Failure of Policy
+ @NickBano , author of Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
+ Jacob Stringer, author of Renters Unite: How Tenant Unions are Fighting the Housing Crisis
+ Speaker from @ACORNunion , the union for the community
@ACORNunion
@LDNRentersUnion
@Autonomy_Inst
@AnnaMinton
@_isaacrose
@abioconnor_
@beth_stratford
@cfwinstanley
@NickBano
@VersoBooks
@PlutoPress
@RepeaterBooks
@policypress
@PenguinBooks
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Searing and vitally important piece by @Lifschitz_sha two year after October 7 theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Occasionally I come across an article in the foreign press that’s strikes me as so important that I want to share it with you. The following was originally written by an Israeli professor of law named Orit Kamir. I am grateful for her permission to republish this. robertreich.substack.com/p/a…
Tomorrow!
Please join us for this great event on Wednesday 25th June wt @JoannaKusiak & @JoePenny talking about their new books on the financialization of housing & grassroots alternatives in London & Berlin
Wednesday 25 June 5pm-7pm, in person
UEL US1.01
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Please join us for this great event on Wednesday 25th June wt @JoannaKusiak & @JoePenny talking about their new books on the financialization of housing & grassroots alternatives in London & Berlin
Wednesday 25 June 5pm-7pm, in person
UEL US1.01
lnkd.in/eEJdcmeq
Please join us for this great event on Wednesday 25th June wt @JoannaKusiak & @JoePenny talking about their new books on the financialization of housing & grassroots alternatives in London & Berlin
Wednesday 25 June 5pm-7pm, in person
UEL US1.01
lnkd.in/eEJdcmeq
My @guardianopinion piece on how regeneration is sterilising the city and emptying it of children & families:
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
I appreciate you said your numbers are out, so thought you may welcome the clarification: euronews.com/2018/05/05/trum…
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Magnificent piece by @danhancox in @ft on Walter Benjamin
“It is more difficult to honour the memory of the anonymous than that of the renowned. Historical construction is devoted to the memory of the anonymous.”
There is still work to be done!
on.ft.com/4agi8yz
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don’t come on here anymore, and don’t think this post will be seen thru all the crypto bots and Elmo’s burner accounts. But I’ve lost my engagement ring (which I made) somewhere in S London. Long shot of all long shots: has anyone seen it? RT this to make me believe in something
This is all true - Camila Batmanghelidjh did incredible work
theguardian.com/culture/2024…
Delighted to say that I've been awarded a @Soc_of_Authors grant to work on my current book about the global housing crisis. It's not easy being a writer and it's awards like this that enable us to keep going #SoA @PenguinUKBooks @NicolaBarr123
