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22 Mar 2023 Conversations with Tyler Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside
“I think because people don’t feel strongly about the Church of England either way, by and large, people are happy for it to stay where it is.”
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- 22 Mar 2023
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…It’s an estimate. Yes. I think because people don’t feel strongly about the Church of England either way, by and large, people are happy for it to stay where it is. Rather in the way that people may not be going to a large church in the middle of a town, but that doesn’t mean that they want to remove it and build a supermarket there. Now, as a historian, surely you value British heritage, the wonderfully manicured look of the English countryside, and for that matter, the hedgehog. Yet my friends, my economist friends tell me we need millions more of homes in southern England because the cost of living is too high. Living standards are falling or stagnating. Rent is an enormous problem. Should we just build more in southern England? What’s your view?…
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