Anna Minton
@annaminton.bsky.social
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
My @theguardian.com piece on what the UK can learn from Mamdani about how to frame wealth taxes: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
theguardian.com
Looking forward to bring on this brilliant online panel with @thelrm.bsky.social Come along - free to join!
Morag Rose@thelrm.bsky.social · 7mo agoOne week to go until an online celebration of #TheFeministArtOfWalking @plutopress.bsky.social 6.30pm Wed 28 Jan on zoom. I'll be in conversation with some fab guests (see next post) with time for audience questions Register free tinyurl.com/FAoWONLINE #psychogeography #WalkingArt #FeministArt
Congratulations to my cousin Professor Ollie Minton 👏
Royal College of Physicians@rcphysicians.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe are excited to introduce the new clinical editor for #Commentary: Professor Ollie Minton, a palliative medicine consultant in Sussex 👏 📚You can also get involved: join the Advisory Group to support the magazine’s future content and direction: ow.ly/j8lk50XLyOa
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...
Housing, Power and Property
A symposium on the politics of housing, rent, urban space and tenants' organising
eventbrite.co.uk
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...
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
theguardian.com
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
Searing and vitally important piece by Sharone Lifschitz two years after October 7 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
theguardian.com
🚨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
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...
Build, baby, build – Is Labour losing the Regeneration Game?
Podcast Episode · Oh God, What Now? · 30/09/2025 · 1h
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Really enjoyed this conversation with @hannahfearn.bsky.social
Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 10mo ago🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Labour has staked its future on building hundreds of thousand of homes and fixing up crumbling communities. But does “regeneration” actually work? @annaminton.bsky.social joins OGWN regular and development wonk @hannahfearn.bsky.social to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow... #starmer
Really looking forward to talking to @thelrm.bsky.social about her great new book on women walking in the city
Morag Rose@thelrm.bsky.social · 10mo agoReally looking forward to visiting @housmansbookshop.bsky.social its always been one of my London touchstones. I will be in conversation with the always excellent @annaminton.bsky.social and looking forward to seeing loiterers old and new x
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
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. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal-of-the-victims-of-the
Tomorrow!
Anna Minton@annaminton.bsky.social · last yr.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
Wednesday 25th UEL book event with Joanna Kusiak & Joe Penny - please join us!
Anna Minton@annaminton.bsky.social · last yr.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
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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On now!
Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · last yr.Coming up right now: the new season of BBC Rethink on Radio 4. Delighted to be back for a second season. This time we're Rethinking Social Housing, joined by Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, @annaminton.bsky.social @rohhyde.bsky.social and Jasmine Basran www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
my @theguardian.com piece on how regeneration is sterilizing the city and driving children and families out: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
theguardian.com
whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍
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...
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
bylinetimes.com
Outstanding piece in @financialtimes.com on the legal meaning of genocide by @simonkuper.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9466...
What is genocide?
And what I learnt from my great-uncle Leo’s attempt to answer
ft.com
This is a great piece by @edwardluce.bsky.social
Edward Luce@edwardluce.bsky.social · 2y ago"America didn't elect Elon Musk. Yet he is acting as Donald Trump’s de facto co-president. Musk’s self-appointed remit includes gunning for regime change in allied democracies...His silence on Russia and China speaks even louder." My column. www.ft.com/content/ff7b...
This is all true - Camila Batmanghelidjh did incredible work www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
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
theguardian.com
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
Myspace died because a right wing billionaire (Rupert Murdoch) bought it and tried to make a bunch of unpopular changes to the platform.
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
