The Land Issue 36

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COMMENT
 
Artificially Unintelligent.
 
Ukraine — Nato’s Tragic Legacy.
 
Let Us Eat Cake.
The case for Land Value Tax revisited.
 
Wealth — What is it good for ?
A.C. Grayling has the answer.
 
Back to the Hand.
Pulling the plug on AI: yes we can.
 
Taking on the Busybody State.
Josie Appleton on the campaign for everyday freedoms.
 
We Are Not Chromophobes.
Why The Land is in black & white.
 
SHORT STORIES
Grumpy Trumpy • Shelter Skelter • Boaters Bashed, Again • Changing Their Spots
 
CURRENT AFFAIRS
 
Wales — Up for Auction?
It’s not Starmer’s country to flog, say irate campaigners.
 
Big Energy vs Micropower
Local grids are a much better answer, claims Nick Rosen.
 
On Keeping the “Demo” in Democracy.
The outlook for protesting gets even worse.
 
Surviving Idiocracy.
Stupidity is the new super-power in politics, says William Davies.
 
Reflections In a Time of False Prophets.
The state of the world fails to impress Simon Fairlie.
 
Fuite en Avant.
Simon Fairlie debunks illusions of “progress”.
 
FOOD AND FARMING
 
Stand Up for Wildlife Friendly Farming.
Because it works, says Mark Measures.
 
Will Beaver Bombs Backfire?
Rewilding unsheathes its capitalist claws.
 
Beyond the Right to Roam.
Simon Fairlie umpires opposing views on a muddy subject.
 
Handy Human Measurements.
When he’s out planting, Tim Deane is all thumbs
 
Peat Bog Blues.
Simon Fairlie on the wasted wonders of wool.
 
Pig News.
Legislation to bring back pig-swill is long overdue, grumbles Gill Barron.
 
Potato Feelings.
Tom Barron consults Wm Cobbett about the ubiquitous tuber.
 
Oh-Oh, Here Comes Summer.
Even in Yorkshire, it happens, bewails farmer John Dawson.
 
INTERNATIONAL
 
Remembrement.
Simon Fairlie & others on the legacy of French wartime enclosures.
 
Migration Myths & Mirages.
Go West, young man? Franklin Obeng Odoom explains why not.
 
Return, Rebuild, Replant.
Julian Sayarer describes the plight of Lebanon’s farmers.
 
Ground to Dust.
Small farmers in Palestine are clinging on. Annie Neligan is a witness.
 
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Coming in to Land.
People who fly need friendly landowners, as Tom Barron explains.
 
Some books, and a film.
Off-grid pioneers, Cornish saboteurs, agrarian philosophers.
 
Another Precarious Community.
It’s crunch time at Brithdir Mawr, as Faith reports
 
Better Late Than Never.
A County Council sees sense on smallholdings.
 

Hay cart in the farmyard