Duncan Bowie
Duncan Bowie has been strategic planner for the London Mayor, a university planning lecturer and has published a number of books on housing and planning policy. He is currently co-convener of the London and Wider South East Strategic Planning Network and chair of the Highbury Group on Housing Delivery. He is Chartist Reviews Editor.
Geoff Hodgson: The Democratic Economy (1984)
Geoff Hodgson was and is an academic economist who developed a libertarian socialist approach to economic management. He lectured at Newcastle and...
The end of town planning as we know it
Duncan Bowie sees the latest Tory proposals for planning and housing development as a huge backwards step
No return to free market mayhem
Coronavirus has seen us experience wartime levels of state intervention. Duncan Bowie says this new normal must be a signal for a different society
Attlee’s Labour government elected 75 years ago
Duncan Bowie highlights the achievements and limits of the 1945 Labour government elected in conditions of huge national debt and destruction, finding lessons for today
Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright: Beyond the Fragments (1979)
Subtitled "Feminism and the Making of Socialism", this collective set of essays was a sustained argument for applying the lessons of the...
Power to the people?
Duncan Bowie asks what power and what people in a discussion of devolution, spatial equity and socialism
Tony Benn: Arguments for Socialism (1979)
Tony Benn, previously known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, was a Minister in Wilson’s 1964-70 and 1974-7 governments and Callaghan’s 1977-9 government. He...
Stuart Holland: The Socialist Challenge (1975)
Stuart Holland was an Oxford-educated economist, with degrees in history and economics, who on graduating worked with the economist Thomas Balogh and...
The challenges of leadership
Successful candidates for Labour leader and deputy have huge tasks to overcome. Rebuilding electoral support and overcoming party divisions are two central challenges among others set out by Duncan Bowie as a guide to selection.
Retrospect and prospects
In anger as well as sadness Duncan Bowie reflects on failure and lost opportunities
Their history
Duncan Bowie considers previous Tory divisions and sees nothing new about nationalism and protectionism