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Sexist attitudes fail profession and community interests alike

By Huw Morris

5 September 2008

Editors love receiving correspondence from readers. It highlights passions and prejudices on key issues and puts a finger on the sector's pulse.

Fyson on ... research that should remind the sector ..

By Anthony Fyson

5 September 2008

Research that should remind the sector of the importance of considering happiness in planning.

Property tax endeavour marks empty gesture for regeneration

By Huw Morris

29 August 2008

Taxes can usher in a host of unintended and unforeseen consequences.

Fyson on ... how to ensure population data collection

By Anthony Fyson

29 August 2008

How to ensure population data collection rigorous enough to inform government expenditure.

Shepley on ... trust's breach of impartiality

29 August 2008

I have been a member of the National Trust for many years, supporting as I do the aims that it was established to promote.

Facing uncomfortable truths on coastal defence consequences

By Huw Morris

22 August 2008

Anybody taking on a top job wants to make a big impact quickly and incoming Environment Agency chairman Lord Smith is no exception.

Fyson on ... a northern regeneration hypothesis

By Anthony Fyson

22 August 2008

A northern regeneration hypothesis that fails to respond to a changing economic environment.

Bell on ... giving time for regeneration

22 August 2008

So the Policy Exchange thinks the north is washed up. If you want to get on in life, bye-bye Blackpool and hello Barnet.

Rural questions raised by Taylor give no indication of going away

By Bryan Johnston

15 August 2008

When MP Matthew Taylor launched his review of rural communities last month he voiced one aspiration above all others - that its findings should not be allowed to gather dust.

Fyson on ... rights and wrongs of coal versus nuclear

By Anthony Fyson

15 August 2008

Fyson on ... rights and wrongs of coal versus nuclear and how we will need to strike an energy compromise.