I’m only half way through, but I don’t quite get that impression. Goldwater seems a bit of an Enoch Powell; ideologically irascible but personally otherworldly to the point of naïveté. (View Post)

Truss is a keen fan of the works of Rick Perlstein, who has written a multi-volume history of the American Right, starting with Barry Goldwater. I’m half way through the first one, it’s very good. (View Post)

Very simply, because property ownership shows signs of being monopolised, at the expense of would-be owners. That’s not the case with most other asset classes. Then you have all the other aspects of … (View Post)

I am sure the various regulations making up the planning system make sense in isolation. However, added up they make a clearly dysfunctional system. We don’t build enough houses. What we do build lar… (View Post)

There’s certainly no money left in BTL. That’s possibly a good thing, albeit as landlords are exiting the market we are seeing rent spikes which don’t help either. (View Post)