@AnnaMinton

Author Big Capital & Ground Control. Work at UEL. New book on the global housing crisis, Penguin 2026. Please follow me to Bluesky:

@annaminton.bsky.social

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

My piece on Grenfell, five years on

[UnHerd @unherd]

The media lapped up the narrative of a poverty-stricken tower block ghetto, but Grenfell was a much-loved place to live | @AnnaMinton https://t.co/hosJTuC2ro

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The kind of ‘out of the box’ thinking we need.

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

This is the development JP Morgan have already demanded they pay no local taxes on. Lest you be under illusions as to who makes the decisions round here.

https://t.co/esB9sEUoz7

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Very happy to be part of this great radio series featuring never heard before lectures from Stuart Hall

[K Biswas @BizK1]

On Wednesdays, I’m hosting a ten-part radio series on English Culture through the mind of Professor Stuart Hall @ResonanceFM

Features never-before-heard recordings from lectures delivered in the mid-1980s - the height of Thatcherism.

11am-midday (BST)

https://t.co/c8DWnFLoNI

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Congratulations to my cousin Professor Ollie Minton @drol007

[Royal College of Physicians @RCPhysicians]

We are happy to introduce the new clinical editor for #Commentary: Professor @drol007👏

He said: ‘I have been an active member of the college for some time and a doctor for even longer, so am delighted to contribute to its voice and that of medicine with the Commentary role as clinical editor.’

📚You can also get involved: join the Advisory Group to support the magazine’s future content and direction: https://t.co/kzsGY7ak9E

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Well!!! Once a Murdoch hack and a Robbie Gibb pal always a Murdoch hack and a Robbie Gibb pal I guess …. This whole BBC nonsense has been a right wing stitch up from start to finish. EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quotes https://t.co/BwcwMzHE7k

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Please join us for this important conference on Housing, Power and Property at the University of East London @UEL_News on December 12th. Free to attend but please register

[The Autonomy Institute @Autonomy_Inst]

NEW: public event 'Housing, Power and Property'

A packed day with excellent speakers:

+ @AnnaMinton , author of Big Capital: Who is London For?

+Isaac Rose, author of The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis

+ @jemgilbert , author of Hegemony Now

+ Councillor Aydin Dikerdem, Wandsworth Borough Council

+ Abi O’Connor, University of Sheffield

+ Beth Stratford, University College London

+ Charlie Winstanley, author of Bricking It: The UK Housing Crisis and the Failure of Policy

+ @NickBano , author of Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

+ Jacob Stringer, author of Renters Unite: How Tenant Unions are Fighting the Housing Crisis

+ Speaker from @ACORNunion , the union for the community

@ACORNunion
@LDNRentersUnion
@Autonomy_Inst
@AnnaMinton
@_isaacrose

@abioconnor_
@beth_stratford
@cfwinstanley
@NickBano
@VersoBooks
@PlutoPress
@RepeaterBooks
@policypress
@PenguinBooks

https://t.co/5DkIMPAy8x

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Searing and vitally important piece by @Lifschitz_sha two year after October 7 https://t.co/Yhc2via3Cr

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Occasionally I come across an article in the foreign press that’s strikes me as so important that I want to share it with you. The following was originally written by an Israeli professor of law named Orit Kamir. I am grateful for her permission to republish this. https://t.co/xMZdV7L7Ds

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Tomorrow!

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Please join us for this great event on Wednesday 25th June wt @JoannaKusiak & @JoePenny talking about their new books on the financialization of housing & grassroots alternatives in London & Berlin
Wednesday 25 June 5pm-7pm, in person
UEL US1.01
https://t.co/Fp1FpK8vyX

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Wednesday 25th - @UEL_News book event wt @JoannaKusiak & @JoePenny - please join us!

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Please join us for this great event on Wednesday 25th June wt @JoannaKusiak & @JoePenny talking about their new books on the financialization of housing & grassroots alternatives in London & Berlin
Wednesday 25 June 5pm-7pm, in person
UEL US1.01
https://t.co/Fp1FpK8vyX

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Please join us for this great event on Wednesday 25th June wt @JoannaKusiak & @JoePenny talking about their new books on the financialization of housing & grassroots alternatives in London & Berlin
Wednesday 25 June 5pm-7pm, in person
UEL US1.01
https://t.co/Fp1FpK8vyX

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

My @guardianopinion piece on how regeneration is sterilising the city and emptying it of children & families:
https://t.co/j1khRPOGdl

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

I appreciate you said your numbers are out, so thought you may welcome the clarification: https://t.co/C7QYKkekeV

[The Secret History of Gold - out May 5 @DominicFrisby]

To think that Britain once ruled the waves ...

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

Magnificent piece by ⁦@danhancox⁩ in @ft on Walter Benjamin

“It is more difficult to honour the memory of the anonymous than that of the renowned. Historical construction is devoted to the memory of the anonymous.”

There is still work to be done!
https://t.co/bJEE7RwWeI

[Eleanor Margolis @EleanorMargolis]

don’t come on here anymore, and don’t think this post will be seen thru all the crypto bots and Elmo’s burner accounts. But I’ve lost my engagement ring (which I made) somewhere in S London. Long shot of all long shots: has anyone seen it? RT this to make me believe in something

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

This is all true - Camila Batmanghelidjh did incredible work
https://t.co/WqlfvytuyY

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Delighted to say that I've been awarded a @Soc_of_Authors grant to work on my current book about the global housing crisis. It's not easy being a writer and it's awards like this that enable us to keep going #SoA @PenguinUKBooks @NicolaBarr123

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Random query, but can anyone recommend a damp surveyor?

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Please follow me to Bluesky at
@annaminton.bsky.social

[@AnnaMinton @AnnaMinton]

Great book event this evening talking about #RadicallyLegal & the socialisation of property in Berlin with inspirational author @jkkusiak & @davidjmadden @urbancommune

[Phil Hubbard @PhilHubbard1]

@jkkusiak talking about her fab new book tonight @theurbansalon inspiring take on the power of radical democracy and ability of using the law against itself @davidjmadden @AnnaMinton @urbancommune a must read!