Hello and welcome to a world to win a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely

bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action from around the world.

This week I speak to Nick Hayes, author of the Book of Trespass, Crossing the Lines that

Divide Us, about the radical history of English trespasses, how the enclosure of common land

formed the foundations of English capitalism, and how we can fight to enforce our rights

to the commons and our right to Rome against the conservatives' assault on some of our

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track Heavyweight Champion of the world as our intro and outro music. Now here is Nick Hayes

on the importance of land and land ownership, to our sense of what it means to be English.

Hello Nick Hayes and thank you for joining me on this episode of a world to win. How are you doing

today? I'm really well. Thanks very much for having us. So we're going to talk today a bit about

your book, The Book of Trespass, which I thoroughly enjoyed reading and I'd really encourage all of our

listeners to pick up as well. I want you to start by just telling us a bit about where you're from in

England and what it was like to grow up there because I think you're from quite near where I grew up.

I was kind of between Reading and Basing Stoke and the countryside around there.

Is that a matter of fact? I tell you what, the older I get, the more Basing Stoke becomes more and more

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