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Bit angry this week, lads. The CPRE \\u2013 officially the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England; known also in certain circles as the campaign for the protection of the rural elite \\u2013 has put out the latest volume of its great work of magical realism, the State of the Green Belt report.

It\\u2019s nonsense, on multiple levels. I think the CPRE\\u2019s firmly held belief that the green belt should be sacrosanct is nonsense of course, but more than that \\u2013 the figures it\\u2019s collected to show the rising tide of brick gradually swallowing the fields of England are demonstrably inaccurate; and its claim that brownfield can solve the housing crisis is demonstrably rubbish, too.

So, I decided to spend this week\\u2019s podcast shouting about all this. I dragged New Statesman political correspondent and official young person Patrick Maguire into the podcasting bunker with me, so that I wouldn\\u2019t just be shouting at myself.

Episode 100 next week, lads. Exciting times.

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