Three Acres And A Cow

Private eye on UK land prices - 6th March 2026

Thanks so much :-)

@vch-home.bsky.social thanks for your amazing work. We are about to publish blog and social posts about your books and are wondering if we can illustrate them using this image from www.history.ac.uk/research/vic...

🐮 our shows are a-moo-sing!

threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/

First peeks of our washing line of history and songbook from the amazing 'Radical Rural' exhibition at
@themerl.bsky.social.

There is lots of great udder stuff going on there too... check out: merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rad...

Thanks to @olliedouglas.bsky.social for his excellent work on this.

Who Owns Scotland 2025 - Land Matters SCOTLAND’S CONCENTRATED PATTERN OF LANDOWNERSHIP CONTINUES TO GET WORSE Today I publish Who Owns Scotland 2025, the second annual report on landownership in Scotland. The first (Who Owns Scotland 2024...

Stark new figures from Andy Wightman: concentration of land ownership in Scotland is getting worse, not better.

And the new Land Reform Bill will do little to change this.

How lovely, looking forward to singing with you. Do come and say hello! 🐮

Truly honoured to be part of this excellent exhibition which you should all get along too!

It collates much of the really vital and interesting work being done on rural and land rights, history and life at the moment, including:
@guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Nick Hayes,
the amazing Leah Gordon,
@threeacresacow.bsky.social
the indefatigable Kate Ashbrook and @openspacessociety.bsky.social

🐄 we are heading south 🎟️ threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/ 🚀 join us, it will be a-moo-sing! 🎵

Preparing for the free 'Tools for being Herd' seminar and hoping to make a word cloud from all the 'how people found out about Three Acres And A Cow' data in the shape of a cow... it is thanks to wordart.com

Zoom seminar is 7pm on Tuesday 10th February, book here - forms.gle/oYAbjF5QKYwF...

Tools for being herd - this is how we moo things!

We are hosting a free online zoom seminar to share the tools and techniques we've found work for us to organise our tours.

7pm on Tuesday 10th February - register here forms.gle/oYAbjF5QKYwF...

George Wilson Bridges - Wikipedia

@mhtaylor.bsky.social just listened to your podcast interview with William & Anita. We'd like to fix George Wilson Bridges wikipedia which omits his time spent terrorising enslaved Africans - is this something you might help us with?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
www.instagram.com/empirepoduk/

It’s time for Ofwat to come clean on Thames Water | Good Law Project Thames Water’s creditors are still trying to hang on to their cash – it’s time for the regulator to publish the details of all the bids on the table

In Godalming, the smell is “horrendous”, with floods backing up into drains every time it rains.

But the stench surrounding Thames Water hangs like a cloud over their accounts as well, where the company is drowning in £17.6bn of debt:
https://goodlaw.social/wlua

Take South East Water into public ownership NOW South East Water has failed households in Kent and Sussex. It is time to bring it into public ownership.

Water privatisation has failed

South East Water spent more on shareholder dividends than on infrastructure

Now the taps aren't working in Kent and Sussex

Emma Reynolds and Ofwat, bring South East Water into public ownership immediately

Sign the petition 👇

weownit.org.uk/act-now/sout...

For the safety of the Western world, we need Donald Trump to win the election.

This should be posted under every post Farage sends and quoted at him in every interview he gives - forever.

We’ve known this for ages… glad everyone else is finally catching up though - www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

🐄 we are heading north 🎟️ threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/ 🚀 join us, it will be a-moo-sing! 🎵

In Common: Palestine Action saga reveals the fiction of the law Good evening! This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Megan Davidson, policy communications officer at Common Weal.

These are not people serving sentences. They are people awaiting trial. And yet the conditions they describe – prolonged pre-trial detention, restrictions on communication, isolation – are indistinguishable from punishment.

www.thenational.scot/news/2570995...

Abolish the Home Office Shabana Mahmood's attack on migrants is just the latest scheme of a department that's been authoritarian for a quarter of a millennium.

The problem isn’t just Shabana Mahmood. It’s the whole department she represents.

open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Why communities need the power to own environmental assets - Power to Change Imagine if as well as pubs and village halls, communities could dream big and purchase beloved rivers, woods, and peat bogs. A tweak to Labour’s forthcoming ...

3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own rivers, woods and moors, have a read of @tomchance.bsky.social's excellent letter here: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...

And here's a piece I wrote on this: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

2/ Big thanks to @simonforstroud.bsky.social for tabling amendments 107 and 108 & to the 9 MPs who have so far added their support!

These would extend the Community Right to Buy to environmental assets, provided the land isn't earmarked for development:

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Image of countryside with words reading: 'Let communities own rivers, woods & moors. Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws'

Let communities own rivers, woods & moors!

Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.

We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/

Let communities own rivers, woods and moors!

Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws.

See our template letter here - www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...

"Approaching Hartington via Sheen, Derbyshire" by Caff, released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.

Housing is a right not a market for profiteering and exploitation

Join a tenants union:
londonrentersunion.org
www.livingrent.org
sheffieldtu.org.uk
tenantsunion.org.uk
acorntheunion.org.uk

Victorian terraced housing photo by Ruth Sharville / CC BY-SA 2.0 / www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11141

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...

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...

#OtD 1 Nov 1963 Black tenants began a rent strike in Harlem, NYC. By January, about 2000 tenants were withholding rent. The strike caused the city to create a rat eradication program, legalize rent strikes, and pass laws to improve housing conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7712...

Why communities need the power to own environmental assets - Power to Change Imagine if as well as pubs and village halls, communities could dream big and purchase beloved rivers, woods, and peat bogs. A tweak to Labour’s forthcoming ...

3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own environmental assets, read my blog here: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...