"the author and barrister Nick Bano, a man who has been described as 'Britain’s top Marxist housing lawyer'”.
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There are almost three million landlords in the UK - more than all of the NHS staff, care workers, and teachers combined. Landlordism is our national industry, and it is long overdue a reckoning.
My review of @NickBano's 'Against Landlords', for the @LRB lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n08/…
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Can't say this enough. We know why @UKLabour isn't talking about rent caps and rent controls, but that doesn't make it right. @NEF predicts £70billion spent on Rent benefits between 2024-29. It is clearly incompetence or corruption to ignore this.
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For our third episode, @clara_ish and @Jack_Witek got a lesson about racial capitalism in British housing and how left YIMBYism will never save us from @NickBano
Nick is a housing barrister + his book Against Landlords is out via @VersoBooks
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📣 Clarion Housing Association ordered to pay significant compensation for discriminating against tenant 📣
Ms Feeney was represented by @NickBano of GCC's #HousingLaw Team, instructed by Serdar Celebi & Anna Jones of Islington Law Centre.
Read on here🔽
gardencourtchambers.co.uk/cl…
ALT Nick Bano Year of Call: 2013 “He fights for tenants.” Chambers UK, 2024 (Social Housing)
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🚨 NEW POLLING: Our latest @YouGov polling has found that 44% of landlords would SUPPORT rent controls (based on location & quality of the property)
Support: 44%
Oppose: 47%
Don’t know: 9%
Here’s what else our polling found. 🧵⬇️
common-wealth.org/publicatio…
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As ever, Nick cuts right to the heart of the issues plaguing the housing system: kids are growing up homeless whilst landlords squeeze as much profit as possible from renters & the public purse
The grotesque nature of today’s private rented sector proves that landlords are incapable of behaving themselves unless we force them to. We must hear their collective cry for regulation.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
The grotesque nature of today’s private rented sector proves that landlords are incapable of behaving themselves unless we force them to. We must hear their collective cry for regulation.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Prime Minister Starmer's lapidary statement re the Gaza genocide is problematic in at least two respects: 1. it gives the impression that what happened on Oct7 may remotely justify the military course that has ensued (which it does not, in any possible way); 2. it casts a shadow on the ongoing work of the ICJ (South Africa v Israel; Nicaragua v Germany) - after the World Court recognised the plausible risk of genocide within 15 days from the starting of the proceedings (clearly the rapidity of the first response underscores the seriousness of the case).
I trust UK international law scholars and practitioners will make their voice heard, and stand firmly against the politicization of int'l law.
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Very good book. Clear, angry and not afraid to call bullshit. Enjoyed the point that the violence of Rachmanism is no longer necessary to evict renters and increase rents as the law itself can now be used instead via 'no fault' evictions.
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📌 Join us at @SOAS #Economics for the presentation of the last book of @NickBano
"Against Landlords, How to solve the housing crisis" 🏡
🔗 Info event ⬇️
tinyurl.com/35bmrmcm
#WeAreSOAS #University #London
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Labour is finally standing up to the bullying landlord lobby, writes @NickBano. It could be a lot tougher novaramedia.com/2024/11/06/l…
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With the recent budget Labour whispered its first words of defiance to the bullying landlord lobby. A little louder for the people at the back, writes @NickBano. novaramedia.com/2024/11/06/l…
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NORTH LONDON AGAINST LANDLORDS - 7PM 19 NOV, N4
Why is the rent so damn high? And what demands would change the system?
Register for this open meeting with @NickBano to discuss his book 'Against Landlords' and how we can win housing justice in London.
outsavvy.com/event/23478/nor…
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🎃✊️🏘Activists in Halloween costumes stage sit-in at council office over 'cramped' housing standard.co.uk/news/london/l…
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Sat 23rd, 12.30 Housing For All!
Through fiction, polemic and organising, our panel offers a damning picture of housing in the UK as well as visions of how things could be. With Holly Pester, @NickBano & @LivingRent_Edi.
lighthousebookshop.com/event…
New legal defence just dropped 👇
The lawyer said it was unfair for us to quote what Athwal said on the phone, because “our client took the call when he was on a crowded Elizabeth Line train.” 🤔
xitter.cf/_TheLondoner/status/18…
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Politics, prose, poetry & a community meal, workshops on rights & writing, film archive & a full virtual offering!
Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair features over 40 speakers incl:
@jeremycorbyn
@lisaluxx_
@Henbell
@salenagodden
@dannydorling
@NickBano
@leahacowan
@DrTJC & more!
Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 2024 program is live!
21-24 Nov: 4 days, over 70 publishers, stalls free to browse & more than 20 events @AssemblyRoxy (and your living room! Yes! It’s all hybrid!)
Browse print: bit.ly/3Yb3piN
Book tix: lighthousebookshop.com/event…
Pls shrare!
ALT A brown hand with lovely red polished nails, holds up flyer of the Radical Book Fair program is held in front of a book case of leftie politics titles - it is illustrated with two boots from which trees grow and in the branches sit activists and readers and a richly diverse community holding banners that read 'No justice no peace and "Another World Is Possimble' and in big letters the theme for the fair 'From Where We Stand'.
ALT an insert of the flyer which lists the thursday-saturday events, which are browseable on the website
