INSANE: 9 - The Real Truth

Communities can take back control of housing – but they need political support

Letters: Tom Chance on why local builders could be the solution to the country’s housing crisis. Plus letters from Dr Steve Melia, David Redshaw and Michael Heaton

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

Through a delayed train’s window, I see how Britain’s ‘blue wall’ is crumbling - town by commuter town

My unwanted rail odyssey began in London Waterloo, and ended up showing me how the Tories are failing their core voters, says the Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2023

How one English town fought cookie-cutter housing by daring to dream a different future

The people of Frome, in Somerset, weren’t ready to have their heritage built over with the same cheap developments that bedevil much of the UK, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2023

Youth hostel sell-off is a blow to egalitarian ideals

Letters: Readers respond to John Harris’s article about the Youth Hostels Association’s decision to sell many of its properties

The Guardian - UK · Aug 2, 2023

Youth hostels are a muddy, joyful miracle. Losing them to Brexit and the cost of living would be a tragedy

They are an antidote to the isolation and smallness of modern life – yet the YHA is being forced to sell off at least 20, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2023

As Greece burns, we see the existential climate crisis dragged into shoddy UK party politics. That can’t happen

A terrible lesson is being taken from the Uxbridge vote. Labour must stick to its green agenda, and decent Tories must raise a voice, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2023

Elect Keir Starmer on Thursday, and fight him on Friday

Letters: Where reform is really needed is in the taxation system, writes Bernie Evans. Plus letters from Hilary Lang, Stephen Porter and Peter Womack

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2023

Keir Starmer is threatening to leave our crises unchanged. So what social forces will he unleash?

From local councillors to climate activists, there is a growing group of people who won’t stand for Labour inaction, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2023

I spoke to teachers preparing to strike. Their trauma was palpable

Staff are burning out and classroom cupboards are bare, hitting students hard. We should feel shock – but also a sinking sense of deja vu, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2023

Inside eerie iron church 'frozen in time' after laying abandoned for years

Perched on a hill near Hollingworth Lake, Rochdale, stands St Hilda’s CE Mission - built by a small band of Catholics in the 1870s before being abandoned and left to crumble

Daily Mirror · Jun 29, 2023