isabella pojuner
@ipojuner.bsky.social
geographer researching the politics of land in england
https://geog.ubc.ca/profile/isabella-pojuner/
remembering the birth of private property with the museumofenclosure.org
and mapping trespass instagram.com/domesplaybook
https://geog.ubc.ca/profile/isabella-pojuner/
remembering the birth of private property with the museumofenclosure.org
and mapping trespass instagram.com/domesplaybook
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And it's helping swing elections www.wired.com/story/the-da...
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
And it's helping swing elections www.wired.com/story/the-da...
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"Slaveholders also ensured that there was no effective bureaucracy for tax assessment. In Georgia, for example, property holders simply asserted the value of their estate and, by law, tax officials could not dispute the owner’s estimate."
Today, @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social explains how Trump's capricious tariffs and attacks on the IRS are the latest iteration of a long anti-tax, anti-democratic tradition.
The Long Anti-Tax Tradition of American Oligarchy
Throughout U.S. history, oligarchs have fettered the tax power of the state to ensure that the government would be too feeble to rein in their power. The Trump Administration'
lpeproject.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"Slaveholders also ensured that there was no effective bureaucracy for tax assessment. In Georgia, for example, property holders simply asserted the value of their estate and, by law, tax officials could not dispute the owner’s estimate."
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“YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes.”
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
interc.pt
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes.”
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Folk often ask me what I would do by way of land reform legislation. Have a read of this blog to find out. It seems pointless to do much further detailed work since there is so little appetite for such measures andywightman.scot/2023/12/land...
Land for the People (Scotland) Bill - Land Matters
Introduction This blog introduces my proposals for a comprehensive Land Reform Bill - one that goes far further than existing proposals in reforming Scotland’s land governance. I plan to publish furth...
andywightman.scot
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Folk often ask me what I would do by way of land reform legislation. Have a read of this blog to find out. It seems pointless to do much further detailed work since there is so little appetite for such measures andywightman.scot/2023/12/land...
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Land Reform (Scotland) Bill passes with 85 voting yes, 28 voting no and 9 abstentions
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Land Reform (Scotland) Bill passes with 85 voting yes, 28 voting no and 9 abstentions
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Right to buy in reverse: how Brighton is tackling its social housing crisis | Richard Partington
Right to buy in reverse: how Brighton is tackling its social housing crisis | Richard Partington
The council is rolling back Thatcher’s flagship policy by buying stock from private landlords. Other local authorities should take note
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Right to buy in reverse: how Brighton is tackling its social housing crisis | Richard Partington
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British lawlessness in Ireland affirmed as perfectly legal by British court.
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
British lawlessness in Ireland affirmed as perfectly legal by British court.
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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Tithi Bhattacharya responds to Eric Blanc, Bashir Abu-Manneh, and Hoda Mitwally's recent criticisms of the US Palestine solidarity movement.
spectrejournal.com/there-are-no...
spectrejournal.com/there-are-no...
There Are No Ceasefires on Stolen Land – Spectre Journal
Tithi Bhattacharya challenges recent criticisms of the Palestinian solidarity movement from Eric Blanc, Bashir Abu-Manneh, and Hoda Mitwally, arguing that our movement need not embrace Liberal Zionism...
spectrejournal.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Tithi Bhattacharya responds to Eric Blanc, Bashir Abu-Manneh, and Hoda Mitwally's recent criticisms of the US Palestine solidarity movement.
spectrejournal.com/there-are-no...
spectrejournal.com/there-are-no...
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Yesterday, Trump awarded Charlie Kirk a Medal of Freedom and named 10/14 a National Day of Remembrance for an unabashed advocate for white supremacy and fascism.
Shame has lost its meaning and power. And so has liberalism. My new essay for The New Republic:
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
Shame has lost its meaning and power. And so has liberalism. My new essay for The New Republic:
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics
While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.
newrepublic.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Yesterday, Trump awarded Charlie Kirk a Medal of Freedom and named 10/14 a National Day of Remembrance for an unabashed advocate for white supremacy and fascism.
Shame has lost its meaning and power. And so has liberalism. My new essay for The New Republic:
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
Shame has lost its meaning and power. And so has liberalism. My new essay for The New Republic:
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
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If you reduce taxation on property, the 'saving' will be capitalised in to house prices, enriching existing owners whilst not increasing homeownership. Property tax needs reform not lowering. Abolish stamp duty & replace with annual proportional property tax.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference
Leader announces tax cut plan for England and Northern Ireland in speech aimed at boosting fiscal credibility
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If you reduce taxation on property, the 'saving' will be capitalised in to house prices, enriching existing owners whilst not increasing homeownership. Property tax needs reform not lowering. Abolish stamp duty & replace with annual proportional property tax.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The anti-genocide protests are not made against the Jewish community. They're not even made against Israel per se. They are primarily against *our own government*, and it's complicity in the genocide being carried out by the Israeli state. The home secretary's remarks should be seen in that context.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish).
Zack is spot on.
Zack is spot on.
October 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The anti-genocide protests are not made against the Jewish community. They're not even made against Israel per se. They are primarily against *our own government*, and it's complicity in the genocide being carried out by the Israeli state. The home secretary's remarks should be seen in that context.
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Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis suggests
Farage's Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK's Mass Deportation Plan
www.bylinesupplement.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis suggests
it's 100 years since the land registry (and therefore the modern property market) was established in england and wales. next tuesday i'll be talking with @sarahkeenan.bsky.social, lorna fox o'mahony and lucy finchett-maddock about the politics of registration. join: www.eventbrite.ca/e/perpetual-...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
it's 100 years since the land registry (and therefore the modern property market) was established in england and wales. next tuesday i'll be talking with @sarahkeenan.bsky.social, lorna fox o'mahony and lucy finchett-maddock about the politics of registration. join: www.eventbrite.ca/e/perpetual-...
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"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds"
The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
www.ohchr.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds"
The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.
August 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.
vital links between food production and fascism in britain made in @vittles.bsky.social this morning — including labour's renewal of the seasonal worker scheme which could be in violation of intl. human rights law. food sovereignty and land justice now!
“Given that the majority of the general population supports British farmers, the vision of the farmer that Clarkson wants to paint – as a hard-grafting, common-sense, anti-woke Volk – could lay some of the groundwork to enable a home-grown British fascism to take root.”
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Blood, soil, and Jeremy Clarkson
Does Clarkson’s emergence as an unlikely symbol of the farmer protests reflect a worrying rise in far-right agrarian populism? Words by Alex Heffron. Illustration by Alex Brenchley.
substack.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
vital links between food production and fascism in britain made in @vittles.bsky.social this morning — including labour's renewal of the seasonal worker scheme which could be in violation of intl. human rights law. food sovereignty and land justice now!
a really exciting time for the english land question, as guy shrubsole outlines here, + context and some key cleavages
Land reform once united Orwell and Churchill - but then disappeared from our politics.
Now, at last, land reform in England is back on the political agenda.
My new piece for @unherd.com:
unherd.com/2025/04/can-...
Now, at last, land reform in England is back on the political agenda.
My new piece for @unherd.com:
unherd.com/2025/04/can-...
Will Starmer take on landowners?
unherd.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
a really exciting time for the english land question, as guy shrubsole outlines here, + context and some key cleavages
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I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of *terrorism* anonymously.
You’re not supposed to grant anonymity to liars. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
April 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of *terrorism* anonymously.
truly an honour to hear the #AAG2025 honorary geographer gwendolyn warren give an oral history of the context and formation of the detroit geographical expedition and institute (DGEI) today. so many critical lessons for geographers working on political education projects @geographers.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
truly an honour to hear the #AAG2025 honorary geographer gwendolyn warren give an oral history of the context and formation of the detroit geographical expedition and institute (DGEI) today. so many critical lessons for geographers working on political education projects @geographers.bsky.social
at #AAG2025 this week! on friday at 12.50, i'll be presenting on research conducted with @samburgum.bsky.social on how those criminalised under laws of trespass negotiate spaces of discretion. will be focusing on our work with gypsies and travellers in west yorkshire @geographers.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
at #AAG2025 this week! on friday at 12.50, i'll be presenting on research conducted with @samburgum.bsky.social on how those criminalised under laws of trespass negotiate spaces of discretion. will be focusing on our work with gypsies and travellers in west yorkshire @geographers.bsky.social
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BLOG - Who Owns Scotland 2024. My annual analysis of who owns Scotland which reveals a growing concentration in the pattern of privately-owned rural landownership since 2012. andywightman.scot/2025/03/who-...
Who Owns Scotlands 2024 - Land Matters
Today I have published what I plan to be an annual analysis of who owns Scotland. The Who Owns Scotland 2024 report is based on an analysis of data from the Who Owns Scotland website as at 31 January ...
andywightman.scot
March 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
BLOG - Who Owns Scotland 2024. My annual analysis of who owns Scotland which reveals a growing concentration in the pattern of privately-owned rural landownership since 2012. andywightman.scot/2025/03/who-...
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This isn't a 'scheme' it's a business arrangement. Nor is it offering 'unprecedented access': it's just charging people for a campsite with no actual facilities. Why is the @theguardian.com publishing commercial advertising as news?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
New scheme to offer campers unprecedented access to wild spaces across Britain
A new partnership will give campers exclusive access to rewilding sites and a chance to join in with conservation efforts
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This isn't a 'scheme' it's a business arrangement. Nor is it offering 'unprecedented access': it's just charging people for a campsite with no actual facilities. Why is the @theguardian.com publishing commercial advertising as news?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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Shaina Potts has written a brilliant & incredibly timely book about law, capital, and American empire.
I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):
I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):
How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade
Shaina Potts’s Judicial Territory examines how the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests.
www.thenation.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Shaina Potts has written a brilliant & incredibly timely book about law, capital, and American empire.
I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):
I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):