I've prepared a Stage 3 briefing for MSPs on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill questioning whether the complex administrative processes in the Bill can really be justified if there is no meaningful impact on the pattern of landownership in Scotland. andywightman.scot/2025/10/stag...
Stage 3 Briefing on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill - Land Matters
I am publishing this blog to provide a link to the Stage 3 Briefing I have prepared for MSPs in advance of consideration of Stage 3 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill. The debate on the 392 Stage 3 am...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Everyone who has family in kibbutzim and in a moshav knows that. But landownership isn't only an ideologically case, it is also bound to secular law and taking someone else's land is illegal.
October 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Landownership in the UK is completely fucked more fucked than almost anywhere because of them. Less than 1% of people own more than 50% of UK land and most of them did didly squat for any of it. They're just the idiot kid of the idiot kid of the idiot kid etc etc of some guy who once was important
September 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Do you think money lobbying and corporate influence play no role in shaping SCOTUS nominations or Senate policy? Would the institutions exist in the same form without a society built on slavery, landownership and capital accumulation?
September 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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July 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Interesting story from @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the aristocracy's ability to hold onto power - citing research that the British gentry were as influential in public life in 2018 as 1858. All underpinned by the wealth and power that comes with landownership observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Far from being on their uppers, Britain’s upper classes s...
Despite vastly increased competition from other social groups, the aristocracy remains as influential in this century as it ever was
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June 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Whether it’s a walk, a workshop, an open day or a celebration—this is a great opportunity to share your story, connect with others, and show what community landownership looks like in action.
August 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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To an extent yes. But the first settlers were men promised riches to be bestowed upon them by their monarch. It wasn’t until decades after the first settlements that emigration was based on the desire for different/opportunity. And with that often it was the “promise” of enrichment/landownership.
July 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Can we get an expert in to look at all the advantages/disadvantages side benefits knock on effects. The social engineering effect on landownership etc.
November 3, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Now Carey Doyle on Scotlands community rights to buy. Sobering to be reminded 2003 Part 2 right (which forms basis of current Bill) has not been activated since 2017 when the grand total of 1 was. This is NOT the means by which to tackle concentrated landownership.
June 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Walvis Bay Tycoon Slams Reports Linking Him to Land, Fishing Payouts to Nujoma
[Namibian] Walvis Bay-based businessman Jose Bastos has labelled reports linking him to a piece of land donated to founding president Sam Nujoma nearly 18 years ago as "fake and false".
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July 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Black landownership is declining due to discrimination, heirs’ property issues & predatory lending. 40 Acre Conservation League is reclaiming land, empowering communities & building the next generation of diverse nature advocates. Let’s change the narrative together. 🌱✊🏾
April 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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#nowreading
“Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership” by Brea Baker
#TheSuccesspert #itsgoodtobeme #Godisgood #leadersarereaders #land #ownership #landownership #blackwealth #blackwealthmatters #rootedbook #realestate
“Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership” by Brea Baker
#TheSuccesspert #itsgoodtobeme #Godisgood #leadersarereaders #land #ownership #landownership #blackwealth #blackwealthmatters #rootedbook #realestate
March 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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This will be my goal. Good on you for optimizing your landownership for dwelling.
The assumption that everyone will build their own house in the US is archaic, feeds hubris, and is generally unsustainable in totality.
Infinite growth is stupid, I think it's cool you're thinking of their future.
The assumption that everyone will build their own house in the US is archaic, feeds hubris, and is generally unsustainable in totality.
Infinite growth is stupid, I think it's cool you're thinking of their future.
May 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Numbers aren’t romantic. The narrative of farming and food wins hearts though it’s false. Farming needs reform, but here it’s landownership we’re actually dealing with. #farming #land #landownership #wealth
lost track of the number of journalists writing that farmers will get hit with IHT above a £1m threshold *for their entire estate*
ignoring the reality that it’s £1m of land per person on top of existing IHT threshold of up to £1m (£3m max)
feels like a major comms failure by government as well
ignoring the reality that it’s £1m of land per person on top of existing IHT threshold of up to £1m (£3m max)
feels like a major comms failure by government as well
November 23, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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#DuBoisChallenge2025 week 3
"Plate 20 in Du Bois’ exhibition – “Land Owned by Negroes in Georgia, U.S.A. 1870-1900.” – is a bright and colorful map of Black landownership across the state... its end and the beginnings of Jim Crow segregation." from mappingatlanta.org/2022/10/23/l...
"Plate 20 in Du Bois’ exhibition – “Land Owned by Negroes in Georgia, U.S.A. 1870-1900.” – is a bright and colorful map of Black landownership across the state... its end and the beginnings of Jim Crow segregation." from mappingatlanta.org/2022/10/23/l...
March 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Definition of the "reconstruction"
The south accepted terrible working conditions bcs the non-whites (not just black) were suffering more.
The promised of landownership & partaking in privileges of the "American-English monarchy"
The only thing they got: Privilege of white skin.
#handsoff
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Definition of the "reconstruction"
The south accepted terrible working conditions bcs the non-whites (not just black) were suffering more.
The promised of landownership & partaking in privileges of the "American-English monarchy"
The only thing they got: Privilege of white skin.
#handsoff
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April 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Namibia to ban foreign land ownership - Voice of Nigeria
Namibia to ban foreign land ownership Voice of Nigeria
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May 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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📝 'The Rise of Digital Land Markets in the Metaverse'
🔊 "As the concept of digital landownership continues to evolve, it’s clear that virtual real estate is more than a game"
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🔊 "As the concept of digital landownership continues to evolve, it’s clear that virtual real estate is more than a game"
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June 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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NEW: As hundreds of African Americans seek a home in Ghana to reconnect with their roots, tensions over landownership and identity are rising. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
The Land Disputes Facing African Americans in Ghana
Locals complain of losing out as wealthier ‘returnees’ from abroad secure prime real estate
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February 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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2. Public and community landownership does not necessarily portend better outcomes for nature. Landowners of all varieties are guided by diverse motivations and incentives.
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March 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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rarely leave youtube comments but cinematherapy announcing they are proud mormons was not on my bingo card — wasn't subscribed to them but i enjoyed some movie reviews, they recently uploaded a reaction video to 'heretic (2024)' then posted about losing support and not understanding why so i replied
January 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Institutional state governance leftism should aim to abolish private property & decentralize democracy to empower & enable direct democratic ownership of the means of production & society, and collective indigenous landownership.
To address the economic & political & ecological issues ethnically.
To address the economic & political & ecological issues ethnically.
November 24, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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Exciting publication with several chapters focusing on community landownership. Open access pdf at the link. Further relevant chapters focusing on commons, land justice, community and housing. Looking forward to diving in and getting it logged in the new CLAN Library!
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Postcapitalist Countrysides
Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its ...
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February 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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