North Stoke Life

Why are we here? Housing nobody can afford, wages that never catch up, debt everywhere, towns that thrive while others are left behind. It all looks like a tangle of problems far too big to fix. But really it comes down to one thing. We sold the land forever. Land was never ours to sell for good. It's a gift we share and pass on, and selling it off for all time goes against nature and against God. Almost everything else follows from that one mistake. There is a remedy, and nobody has to be forced into it: the elective Location Value Covenant. Anyone who wants it can take it, and anyone who doesn't can keep the title they've got. If people decide against it, then so be it. We'll simply have chosen to keep struggling. A follow-on to The Earth Sold Forever . The full policy detail is at locationvaluecovenants.org.uk . So here's the idea in a nutshell. We don't have to take anyone's freehold away to stop selling the earth forever. We just make people an offer...

Follow-on to the earlier piece on claims to land: The Ground We Stand On In the previous piece I suggested that almost every claim to exclusive rights over land rests on a chain of prior occupancy that, once examined, fails. The practical reality today is sharper still. Nearly all the land in the world that people actually want to live and work on has already been sold, and sold forever. Recognising this opens a clear opportunity: society can choose to treat location value differently, and in doing so release a large part of the pressure that currently shapes housing, migration, and public finance. The most valuable urban and peri-urban land — the places where jobs, infrastructure, and services concentrate — is held under freehold or equivalent titles that treat the soil as a private capital asset. It can be bought, mortgaged, inherited, and passed down indefinitely. In high-demand cities the price of that permanent title often exceeds the value of anything that can be built on...

We talk about “my land” or “our land” as if the claim is obvious. A family has farmed the same fields for generations. A nation controls territory. Someone buys a house and expects the right to last forever. It feels natural. It is also strange when examined closely. Land is not like other things we own. A car wears out. A phone becomes obsolete. The ground itself was here long before any of us and will remain long after. No one made it. Yet our laws treat pieces of it as private property that can be bought, sold, and held forever—the same way we treat furniture or company shares. How ignorant and selfish we all are about our so called land Everyone is fighting over rights to land and sovereignty — first-come-first-served, ancestral claim, conquest, treaty, or simple possession — yet almost no one stops to notice that the ground under their feet was almost certainly taken from someone else, often far beyond the reach of recorded history. Migration continues without honouring thos...

We hear constant talk about fascism, the far right, white supremacy, and similar threats. Yet concrete instances that match the scale and character of the warnings remain remarkably scarce. The louder and more ubiquitous the claims become, the more striking this absence appears. Why, then, does the illusion persist with such force across media, campuses, and online spaces? The answer lies in projection. What feels overwhelmingly real to those who shout about these dangers is often not an external reality but an internal one. Deeper anxieties—about order, purity, control, or moral legitimacy—are displaced onto convenient targets. The darker side of the self, or of one’s own political community, is relocated “out there,” where it can be denounced without the discomfort of self-examination. The threat is experienced as genuine precisely because it originates from within. This mechanism is ancient and non-partisan. Humans have long externalized their fears onto witches, heretic...

Trump is going to go down in history as a great hero. And will be remembered with honour for thousands of years, alongside all the great myth's. He will become an 'archetype'. And you will be able to say "I was there".