George Monbiot has written about the lockdown and the longer history of controls over public spaces in The Guardian, with…
Author: knavickas
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new podcast
I’m experimenting with podcasting my developing ideas for the book. Here’s episode 3: legislation, which covers a parliamentary debate in…
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two great blog posts on public space and the lockdown
Antonia Layard on parks: David Mead on the implications of the emergency legislation for public protest: Also a useful legal…
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who has the right to use public space? (1/n)
Yet again, research and writing for a chapter in my book that originally was historical and as I thought, non-controversial,…
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Playing fields and recreation grounds
I went on my government mandated local exercise once a day to my local open space, which is some council…
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public health and public space
The closing down of public space means something completely different now that we are in the middle of a global…
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‘Aggravated trespass’ and the Ramblers
Current government proposals to make trespass a criminal offence have been criticised by groups representing Gypsies & Travellers, and the…
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Public Order law and space
A quick summary here of the development of public order law in relation to space and protest and the freedom…
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Neeson’s commoners
I’ve just done a deep reading of J. M. Neeson’s now classic study of enclosure in Northamptonshire, Commoners, Common Right,…
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