Letting Agent Fails to Disrupt Tenant Protest
In a farcical move, letting agent DJ Alexander hired contractors to carry out unsafe work outside their offices at noon on Friday 20th July in an attempt to prevent a…
A call for a Tenants' Movement
Housing is one of the defining issues of our generation. Not only have sub-prime mortgages triggered a financial crisis that has led to high unemployment and austerity measures, but it's…
Prosecution of a F&M145 arrestee falls apart
Today my trial for a two hour sit-in at Fortnum and Mason ended far faster than anyone estimated. The trial was scheduled to end on the November 30th, however a…
Jilted Generation?
Niall Ferguson has written for The Daily Beast declaring that young people should blame not Wall Street, but Baby Boomers. It is an argument that has long been made by…
Youth Unemployment: Government Policies Aren’t Working
Figures released by the ONS this week have revealed that unemployment is now the highest that it has been since the early 1990s. There are now million people unemployed in…
Unvolunteering
By Paul Jon Milne Paul Jon Milne's art can be found on , and his surreal exploration of unemployment, revolution and fighting games can be found on facebook. Trundling through…
The case against landlords
Let's face it: nobody wants to live in private sector rented accommodation. This is the type of housing which provides the least secure forms of tenure, and where the worst…
London riots: of course they are political
The most surprising thing about these riots is that anyone is surprised. Here in Oxfordshire, youth workers have been predicting for months that things would kick off this summer. Of…
Housing Benefit Age Discrimination
Did you know that if you are under 25 and single the government does not treat you as a fully grown adult when it comes to housing benefit? This scandal is…
F-off Heff: on Playboy, sex, psychosocial stress and the jilted generation
I like sex. OK, that's a pretty banal statement. Most people do. So, let me put it another way. I have no problem with people having sex as much as…