The Great British Housing Crisis: Is a Brand New Mega-City the Answer? (Shiv Malik)

Radical with Gabriel Gatehouse · Jun 18, 2026 · 1h 2m

This week, Amol is joined by the author and journalist Shiv Malik, to discuss his plan to build a new mega-city from scratch in East Anglia.

In 2010 Shiv Malik wrote a book called the Jilted Generation, which argued that anyone born since 1979 has been robbed of their future because of how expensive home ownership has become.

Now, he’s dedicating his life to a plan for a new city that he thinks will save Britain, and prove that we can be builders again.

Shiv wants to build ‘Forest City’ on 45,000 acres of farmland in East Anglia. His vision is one of Canary Wharf style sky-scrapers surrounded…