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Anna Minton

@annaminton.bsky.social
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Writer, journalist, UEL academic and trying to have it all mum of two boys. Author of Ground Control and Big Capital. Working on a new book on the global housing crisis, which will be published by Penguin in 2026. Contributor to Guardian & FT

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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My @theguardian.com piece on what the UK can learn from Mamdani about how to frame wealth taxes: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax isn’t far off Labour’s housing policy. Not that you’ll ever hear Starmer say it | Anna Minton
The UK has its own progressive second home and ‘mansion’ taxes. So why isn’t the PM shouting it from the rooftops, asks Anna Minton, a reader in architecture at the University of East London
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Looking forward to bring on this brilliant online panel with @thelrm.bsky.social Come along - free to join!
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Congratulations to my cousin Professor Ollie Minton 👏
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Please join us for this important conference on Housing, Power and Property at the University of East London on December 12th. Free to attend but please register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/housing-po...
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Housing, Power and Property
A symposium on the politics of housing, rent, urban space and tenants' organising
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
My piece in @theguardian.com on the Public Inquiry into plans by Berkeley to build hundreds of luxury apartments in Peckham that barely any local people can afford: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What will Labour sacrifice for its housing targets? A standoff in south London is putting it to the test | Anna Minton
In Peckham, developers unwilling to meet affordable housing quotas are facing down residents and the council, says author Anna Minton
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Great to be part of the discussion last night @housmansbookshop.bsky.social for the launch of @thelrm.bsky.social wonderful new book The Feminist Art Of Walking
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Searing and vitally important piece by Sharone Lifschitz two years after October 7 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz
So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨ICYMI🚨 Housing expert and author of Big Capital: Who Is London For? @annaminton.bsky.social joins @hannahfearn.bsky.social to discuss the nightmare of trying to build houses in a system designed to inhibit it 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow... #starmer #housing #regeneration
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
A joy to chat about the scourge of regeneration with @annaminton.bsky.social for an @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social deep dive. From Baltimore to Liverpool docks, “market renewal pathfinders” (who remembers them?) to city sterilisation - we’ve got it all. Listen up! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
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Build, baby, build – Is Labour losing the Regeneration Game?
Podcast Episode · Oh God, What Now? · 30/09/2025 · 1h
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Really enjoyed this conversation with @hannahfearn.bsky.social
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Really looking forward to talking to @thelrm.bsky.social about her great new book on women walking in the city
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The fact that Starmer sat next to Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman at the King's banquet presumably to thank him for the £90 billion 'investment' aka asset stripping tells you all you need to know about this government
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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. robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betray…
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Tomorrow!
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Wednesday 25th UEL book event with Joanna Kusiak & Joe Penny - please join us!
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Please join us for this great event on Wednesday 25th June wt #JoannaKusiak and #JoePenny talking about their new books on the financialization of housing & grassroots alternatives in London & Berlin Wednesday 25 June 5pm-7pm, in person, University Square, Stratford US1.01 booking: lnkd.in/eEJdcmeq
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
On now!
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
my @theguardian.com piece on how regeneration is sterilizing the city and driving children and families out: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A new kind of gentrification is spreading through London – and emptying out schools | Anna Minton
Thanks to ‘placemaking’, thriving communities are hollowing out, to be replaced by luxury apartments and expensive restaurants, says author Anna Minton
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dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @davemacleod.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Clear eyed assessment as ever by @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8632...
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The Trump 50 per cent doctrine
With ruthless purges of the US government, the president is tipping the scales towards autocracy
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for Trump and Musk A superb article from @peterjukes.bsky.social & @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/01/25/h...
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From Z to X: How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for Trump and Musk
“Money and information are the twin tactical nukes of modern politics” according to Steve Bannon. But the the seeds for this tech dystopia were sown more than a decade ago
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Outstanding piece in @financialtimes.com on the legal meaning of genocide by @simonkuper.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9466...
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What is genocide?
And what I learnt from my great-uncle Leo’s attempt to answer
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is great @adelap.bsky.social
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This is a great piece by @edwardluce.bsky.social
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
This is all true - Camila Batmanghelidjh did incredible work www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
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Camila Batmanghelidjh remembered by Lemn Sissay
The poet tells of his relationship with the founder of Kids Company, who was the ‘embodiment of integrity’ in her work for children in need
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Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Oops! Warning ahead:
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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Myspace died because a right wing billionaire (Rupert Murdoch) bought it and tried to make a bunch of unpopular changes to the platform.
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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It was indeed thrilling to host & chair this book launch. Many thanks to Joanna Kusiak for bringing the book to the world, to @janetinkler.bsky.social for financial support, to @davidjmadden.bsky.social & @annaminton.bsky.social for discussions
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