Letters
The Labour Land Campaign has something important to say, and we get our point of view across. Here is a selection of letters published in the national and labour movement press.
One way Labour could introduce land value tax – Carol Wilcox – Financial Times (10th September 2024)
Carol Wilcox – Financial Times (12th July 2024)
Carol Wilcox – Financial Times (19th April 2024)
Carol Wilcox – Guardian (4th January 2024)
Carol Wilcox – Guardian (4th January 2024)
Carol Wilcox – Financial Times (8th February 2023)
Peter Reilley – Guardian (2nd February 2023)
Anthony Molloy – Guardian (24th July 2022)
Carol Wilcox – Financial Times (4th June 2022)
Dr Justin Robbins – Western Morning News (11th January 2022)
Heather Wetzel – Observer (23rd January 2022)
Dr Justin Robbins – Guardian (21st January 2022)
Carol Wilcox to Financial Times (15th March 2021)
Carol Wilcox to Morning Star (2nd October 2020)
Carol Wilcox to the Financial Times (1 July 2020)
Past letters to the Financial Times from Carol Wilcox
Land value tax would create a virtuous circle (5 November 2017)
Westminster v Weymouth (23 January 2019)
One way to claw back HS2 cost (12 December 2019)
Landowners’ wealth has not been honestly earned (11 April 2019)
Business rates should be abolished but a turnover tax is not the
best alternative, by Michael J Hawes: Daily Telegraph (2 February 2017)
Creative responses to the UK housing crisis, by DBC Reed: The Guardian on 16 November 2016
How To Meet Britain’s Housing Needs, by DBC Reed: The Guardian : June 23, 2015
Labour Deserves Economic Credit Where Due, by DBC Reed: The Guardian : May 18, 2015
Build in Cities to Solve Housing Crisis, by Heather Wetzel and DBC Reed: The Guardian : May 4, 2015
The Iniquities of London housing : The Guardian : January, 2015
Britain needs to set its housing market in order : Financial Times : January, 2015
Scotland’s land ownership is not an independence issue : The Guardian : May 27, 2014
Political will needed to tackle housing crisis : The Guardian : May 22, 2014
A tax on all our houses? : The Guardian : April 23, 2014
Bob Crow : The Guardian : March 13, 2014
It’s all about inequality : The Observer : January 26, 2014
One kind of land tax may provide an exit from housing trap : Financial Times : October 14, 2013
Land tax would end speculating : Morning Star : July 1, 2013
London tax and spending : Financial Times : May 22, 2013
ECB rate cutting : Daily Telegraph : May 6, 2013
Getting off on any underground station : The Guardian : January 13, 2013
Inside Housing : January 11, 2013
The right targets for EU subsidies : The Guardian : November 28, 2012
Land access isn’t just a fight for rural communities : Morning Star : January 12, 2012
Public infrastructure… : Financial Times : January 12, 2012
Local development plans… : The Telegraph : September 27, 2011
Mr Davie-Thornhill, a response : Financial Times : April 14, 2011
Grant Shapps’s comments… : The Observer : January 9, 2011
Land-value tax is the way forward : The Independent : January 6, 2011
The case for a tax on land : The Independent : November 12, 2010
Time to get down-to-earth : Morning Star : October 5, 2010
High house prices not caused by shortage : The Guardian : August 14, 2010
Peter Wilby congratulates… : The Guardian : August 9, 2010
Payback for past land grabs : Morning Star : June 28, 2010
‘Leaping leftwards’ : The Guardian : February 11, 2010
Cuts to pensions : The Guardian : January 5, 2010
Boris is right (on this) : Evening Standard : December 18, 2009
Simon Jenkins is right : The Guardian : October 17, 2009
Goal should be food self-reliance : Morning Star : October 2, 2009
We need a housing audit and land taxes : The Guardian : October 2, 2009
Vince Cable is to be applauded… : The Guardian : September 23, 2009
Labour should be bold on taxation : The Guardian : September 12, 2009
Gerrard Winstanley : The Guardian : September 8, 2009
Taxation rules distort the way the market operates : Financial Times : January 13, 2009
Tax homeowners, not workers : The Observer : January 4, 2009
Land bank rebuttal : The Guardian : November 8, 2008
Lessons for Britain from American intervention… : The Daily Telegraph : September 9, 2008
Can things only get worse? : The Guardian : September 1, 2008
The price of houses : The Independent : May 14, 2008
Don’t forget, economists: land is a separate factor from capital : Financial Times : April 9, 2008
Why is the UK suffering a financial crisis? : The Times : March 20, 2008
Hold off, Mr King : The Times : January 24, 2008
Replace standard rate tax and fix land market as well : Financial Times : October 23, 2007
There should be no profit from death : The Observer : October 15, 2007
How to construct fairer access to housing : The Guardian : July 25, 2007
Taxing land use makes sense : Morning Star : June 26, 2007
Landing slot auctions would create green revenue : Financial Times : March 28, 2007
How to put land to good use : Morning Star : March 2, 2007
Valuing the land : The Guardian : January 18, 2007
Mayor’s tax plan revitalised city : The Independent : December 27, 2006
Milton Friedman : The Guardian : November 22, 2006
Land Tax is an excellent idea we can build on : Tribune : October, 2006
Recessions, poverty amid plenty : Financial Times : September 26, 2006
Simple case for taxing land and property : The Times : July 26, 2006
Land tax once served the country well and could do so again : Financial Times : June 20, 2006
Electoral participation : The Guardian : May 5, 2006
Nature cannot be owned : Resurgence magazine : May 2006
Rights and wrongs of the Jowell affair : The Guardian : March 2, 2006
House price inflation : The Observer : July 3, 2005
Property prices are the real problem : The Guardian : January 25, 2005
Home truths : The Observer : December 11, 2004
More land for homes : The Guardian : December 8, 2004
We could have been a fairer and richer country : Financial Times : December, 2004
Taxes better than interest rates : The Guardian : November 8, 2004
Cheaper homes maybe but not so the land : Financial Times : October 6, 2004
Land value tax will have beneficial effect : Financial Times : September 24, 2004
We can’t let the land go : The Guardian : September 7, 2004
Housing Betrayal : Morning Star : August 1, 2004
Harsh lessons : The Observer : July 18, 2004
Revenue streams : The Guardian : July 7, 2004
The scandal of London’s 70,000 empty houses : The Guardian : June 9, 2004
Land question : Voice of the Unions : July 2004