Open Up the Registers
It is an odd state of affairs that it is easier to find out the ownership of land in 1915 than it is in 2018. The Finance Act of 1910 (Lloyd George’s famous People’s Budget”) proposed an increment levy on
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Category: Freedom of Information
Declaration of Interests, Income and Tax 2016-17
Since 2010, I have been (like a couple of my self-employed writer/activist colleagues George Monbiot and Alastair McIntosh) making an annual declaration of interests, income and tax. Previous declarations can be found at the foot of the About page. Commentators,
Continue readingDeclaration of Interests, Income and Tax 2015
Since 2010, I have been (like a couple of my self-employed writer/activist colleagues George Monbiot and Alastair McIntosh) making an annual declaration of interests, income and tax. Previous declarations can be found at the foot of the About page. Commentators, campaigners
Continue readingDeclaration of Interests, Income and Tax 2014
Since 2010, I have been (like a couple of my self-employed writer/activist colleagues George Monbiot and Alastair McIntosh) making an annual declaration of interests, income and tax. Previous declarations can be found at the foot of the About page. Commentators,
Continue readingWho owns this land?
The land illustrated above (Midmar Paddock on the eastern slopes of Blackford Hill, Edinburgh) is currently for sale via Strutt & Parker (sales brochure here – 925kb pdf). The reason for publishing this blog is to ask “who owns this land?
Continue readingDeclaration of Interests, Income & Tax 2013
SInce 2010, I have been ( like a couple of my self-employed writer/activist colleagues George Monbiot and Alastair McIntosh) making an annual declaration of interests, income and tax. Previous declarations can be found at the foot of the About page.
Continue readingScottish Government’s Spatial Datasets
Eighteen months ago I asked the Scottish Government for details of all the spatial datasets it held. From conversations I have had over the past year, it is clear that it would be useful to share this more widely and
Continue readingTimothy George Congdon’s Scottish Estates
On 23 February 2014, the Sunday Herald revealed that Timothy Congdon, UKIP’s economic spokesperson, had benefitted from wind energy developments on his land in Argyll and Caithness. Today (4 March) it was revealed that he has stood down from the
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Following last year’s declaration I am, like a couple of my self-employed writer/activists colleagues (George Monbiot and Alastair McIntosh), making an annual declaration of interests and income. Commentators, campaigners and advocacy groups should be open about their interests and income (this story from today
Continue readingLand reform debate moves up a gear
Photo: Roxburghe Estate Photo reference Library Scotland’s landed class made the front page of the Scotsman yesterday under a headline “Lairds in warning over new buy-out powers”. The story is based around submissions of evidence to the Scottish Government’s Land Reform
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