Also Greenwich, Holland Park, Chiswick Mall and Barnes Village, Highgate, and parts of Notting Hill. All beautiful parts of one of the world's few truly great cities. Though one of the charms of Lond… (View Post)

What do we expect if we jack up visa fees to ridiculous levels, impose absurdly high aviation taxes, don't build nearly enough airport capacity, stop tourists from reclaiming VAT to the delight of th… (View Post)

"If it wasn't deliberate, it was monumentally stupid" I really like that. From economic policy to sucking up to China to housing reform to screwing up our education system, it should be thi… (View Post)

Being a landlord is precious little to do with tenants, it's basically a bet on the government being too cowardly and incompetent to sort out housing supply, so your property rises in value. For fift… (View Post)

"Having a heart" as you call it, presumably involves either wasting even more of other people's money, and there's none left, or importing yet more of the third world and dumping them in ou… (View Post)