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New CEBR analysis for Babelfish finds 1.4m homes could be built on brownfield land, adding 0.9% to GDP a year for a decade. Half already have planning permission.

13/07/2026

99% Agree Climate Change Threatens Their Families. 78% Want More NHS Funding. The Squeezed Stewards Have More in Common With Labour Than They Think.

23/03/2026

75% of Britons Think the Wealthy Are Getting Richer While the Poor Fall Behind. Many Reform Voters Agree. That's the Gap Labour Must Exploit.

23/03/2026

Tax Exile Foreigners Own Our Media and Set Our Political Agenda. Farage Fills the Gap With Lies About Immigration. It's Time to Change Both.

23/03/2026

Every Labour Sentence Sounds Pre-Approved by Three Committees. Thatcher Warned About This. Even Trump Has a Lesson to Offer. Labour Must Listen.

23/03/2026

Copying Reform Would Give Farage Legitimacy and Lose Labour Its Own Voters. Wilde Said It Best: Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.

23/03/2026

Why breaking the gas price link and reforming renewables pricing is key to cutting UK energy bills and fuel poverty.

26/11/2025
Housing

Landbanking, not immigration, is why you can't buy a house

Five housebuilders sit on 868,922 plots worth £275bn while completions hit a decade low. Landbanking, not immigration, is why a generation can't buy a home.

13/07/2026

Tony Blair is wrong on green energy. High bills come from fossil fuels and a rigged market — not renewables.

26/11/2025

Cold homes, high bills and rising anxiety show Britain’s energy system is failing. It’s time to put people before profit.

26/11/2025

Removing VAT from energy bills and applying it to flights could cut costs for families and tackle a deeply regressive tax.

26/11/2025

Labour’s moral test is whether it can cut energy bills, end fuel poverty and raise living standards by embracing clean power and fair reform.

26/11/2025
Housing

Public backs council tax on developers' empty plots

Survation polling for Babelfish finds more people back than oppose charging housebuilders council tax on consented land they haven't built on. 49% back brownfield.

13/07/2026

Babelfish Editions

blockwork being put up

Edition 4

Building for Britain

A massive housebuilding programme could kick-start an economic boom and provide hundreds of thousands of jobs

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Donations? No thanks!

Edition 3

Cleaning up politics

Clean up the public's trust in politics for the price of a bag of crips per person.

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A bunch of 🐂 💩ers. AKA some Reform MPs

Edition 2

Reform needs reform

Labour need to speed up reform or risk losing voters to Reform. Frustration, inequality and slow change are driving support of Farage and co.

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Dale Vince

Edition 1

Truth About Power

What If...

I told you everyone in Britain can have an extra £350 in their pockets... and your energy bills can be nearly halved... and our economy boosted by £30bn... and inflation and interest rates will both fall.

How can this be done, you ask... I'll show you inside.

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