Surely new buyers should be people just starting out and generally buying somewhere to live on their own. They won't need a family home until they meet a life partner and decide to have kids. They sh… (View Post)

Given the rate of population increase, we do indeed need millions of dwellings over, say, any 10-year period (View Post)

Doesn't this happen as people get better off? At a much lower level of income (ie I'm not an HR taxpayer) I got to an "oh fuck it" moment, decided I could afford to pay off my mortgage and … (View Post)

When I worked in a Jobcentre I lost count of the times I was told "I can't work inside". OK I think it was sometimes code for "I will only accept a job doing what I normally do" b… (View Post)

A Napoleon was US Navy Secretary and Attorney General https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Bonaparte?wprov=sfla1 (View Post)