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About Katharine Hibbert

Katharine Hibbert is currently setting up a social enterprise to bring empty properties back into use. She works for Intelligence Squared and is the author of Free: Adventures on the Margins of a Wasteful Society, which describes her experiences as a squatter and a scavenger.

Articles by Katharine Hibbert

Wednesday 23rd June

Optimism, pessimism and rationality

In a review essay of Matt Ridley's "The rational optimist" and Mark Boyle's "The moneyless man", scavenger and squatter Katharine Hibbert sympathises with alternative living but also wants clear thinking
Saturday 30th January

Gutted: council staff wreck council flats

Katharine Hibbert recalls her experiences living in a London squat: councils trashing vacant flats, all to prevent desperate people making some use of them
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