I've always understood the winter fuel allowance as one of Gordon Brown's most obviously political bungs. If the state pension isn't high enough for recipients to heat their homes in w… (View Post)

Well, yes, but that's my point. it makes no difference if the landlord is charged 5% extra on that income, because they're already setting up a bidding war to extract the maximum rent they … (View Post)

Anyway, you can tell that the book I'm reading at the moment is clearly not as gripping as those I listed earlier. Good night all! (View Post)

Bear in mind that I've read about five dozen books so far this year, and the list of books that merit that distinction is only a subset of those. They are: A Ghost in The Throat by Doireann Ni G… (View Post)

Landlords are already charging as much rent as they can get in the market. The rents charged on a property are not set by the costs a landlord faces, but by the demand for rental property and the fin… (View Post)