Phineas Harper
@PhinHarper
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"too clever by half" — The Adam Smith Institute. Opinions at the Guardian. Trustee at @C20Society. Previously: Open City, Oslo Triennale, the AF, the AR.
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Joined February 2009
Proud to unveil the biggest kinetic art comission I have yet undertaken, 100 unique mobiles to celebrate the arrival of Spring commissioned by the fashion brand TOAST.
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Some great letters in the Guardian in response to my latest opinion piece. And some more tenacious letters defending Scouts from my mild critiques, all of which misgender me.
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Letters: Andrew Moncrieff, Mary Mills and Rev Clive R Fowle take a trip down memory lane, while Anthony Claff and Peter Wrigley say the Scouts weren’t so bad either
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Bored of Biennales: Are art and architecture festivals dead? Turncoats returns to Peckham in September to debate the future of architecture, art and design festivals. With Lee Ivett, Meneesha Kellay, Zarina Muhammad, Smith Mordak & Lev Bratishenko.
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RT @kitdjones: Beautifully blending the personal, the political and the historical, @PhinHarper writes about Woodcraft Folk, which forged o….
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The leftwing alternative to Scouts turns 100 this year. If Keir Starmer wants to empower Britain’s young people, it has much to teach him, says writer and curator Phineas Harper
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Woodcraft Folk, the leftwing alternative to Scouts, turns 100 this year. If Keir Starmer really wants to empower young people, Britain's oldest co-educational youth movement has much to teach him.
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The leftwing alternative to Scouts turns 100 this year. If Keir Starmer wants to empower Britain’s young people, it has much to teach him, says writer and curator Phineas Harper
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the effort the bbc is going to keep these two disgraced white dudes on air contrasted with the effort it went to to censor that black punk band's strongly worded condemnation of an army under investigation for genocide and led by a man wanted for war crimes boggles my mind
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RT @PeteApps: Over 35 years, we have dug ourselves into a pit. If we want a functional housing market, we need a strategy that ends relianc….
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Failed Thatcherite policy monetised complex housing needs. No wonder those who benefit are loth to change it, says Peter Apps, a contributing editor at Inside Housing
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Is this a precursor to the Co-operative Party abandoning their long-standing (and one-sided) electoral agreement with Labour? Could be huge if so.
🚨 NEW: The Co-operative Party is Britain’s fourth-largest party in Parliament. But in BBC output, our representatives are often labelled simply as “Labour”. We asked how often this happens, but the BBC refused to say. Today, we’re asking for answers.
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RT @OldStationSt: Historic listed building? ✔️.Disused for a while ✔️.Earmarked for residential dev ✔️.Development seemingly stalled ✔️."My….
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No surprise at all that the founder of @LabourYIMBY has joined the Tories. The Yimby agenda in the UK is a scam, wrapped up in right wing dreams of deregulation and private property development rather than a sincere vision for reducing housing costs.
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Former Labour activist and prominent housing campaigner Chris Worrall has switched sides to support the Conservative Party, and tells Zoe Crowther that a Tory pro-growth agenda could create an...
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Thank you everyone who has bought pieces from my show To Earth Like Dew. The exhibition is open today and tomorrow. It's going so well that I have added a few more pieces for sale at the gallery or online.
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RT @piercepenniless: Britain should be using the immolation of American scientific research to reestablish leading pharmaceutical and medic….
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Yesterday I lent a neighbour a belt sander and electric planer, This morning other neighbours were locked in their bedroom after their doorknob broke so threw me a key of the window so I could enter the flat and free them. Community is is useful!.
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I was at a children's camp this last week. At one point a young volunteer, referring to a friend, said, somewhat awestruck, "he's so rich that he can afford his own home". That's where we've come to, country where just being able to rent a flat feels dizzyingly out of reach.
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This is, actually, a very good thing. The practice of British landowners demanding the astronomical prices for development land because the UK has no effective way of regulating land values is a huge contributor to the housing crisis.
“Farmers will be forced to sell fields for less than their potential value if they are seized to build new homes or hospitals, under measures in the Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill.”. Compulsory purchase (at low purchase value) by local councils of farmland / green
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RT @C20Society: Remember the huge advertising sign debacle at Euston Station in 2022? Ever wondered what happened to the old departures bo….
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Why can't we design beautiful social housing anymore? That was the question The New World magazine asked me recently and it's a good one. Here's my answer:
thenewworld.co.uk
Social housing in the UK has a reputation for drabness. Other countries have done it far better – it’s time to learn from the ones who got it right
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Another example of why the price of land should be regulated. Allowing landowners to set whatever price they can get away with for land is ruinous for everyone – even, in this case, sports giants.
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My new show, To Earth Like Dew, is now open in Blackheath Village at Gallery White Box.
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I'm delighted to have some works for sale as part of my joint exhibition To Earth Like Dew in Blackheath.
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