That would be a good start, I agree. I note in passing that the education of both of my children completely ignored such things in favour of teaching them about Tudor monarchy several times over. (View Post)

(I should probably add that said country house was not in my family. Just realised that was ambiguous...) IIRC Ta-Nehisi Coates has written about reparations from a US perspective, but I suspect what… (View Post)

“Those guys over there did the bad thing too!” is not a good look. We took the slave trade and turned it into an engine of destruction out of which certain parts of the country made huge profits. I w… (View Post)

The majority of house buyers buy with money borrowed from elsewhere - in 2018 it was about 2:1 mortgage:cash buyers. House prices are therefore strongly affected by the availability & price of cr… (View Post)

Man, I’m really looking forward to the 10,000 word posts on Cummings’ blog about he was right & everyone else was wrong. They’re going to be barnstormers. (View Post)