Home ownership in the UK peaked at about 73%. The lowest 25% have rarely been home owners. What we saw in the 1980s and 1990s was an increase in home ownership among the working class and young. (View Post)

Revealing aside from Martin Samuel in the Times this week: Not least because the newest breed of nepo chefs don’t actually want to be chefs. If Brooklyn fancied work in a professional kitchen, he cou… (View Post)

The people who are sabotaging UK politics are the politicians. Unless Musk and Cummings have a few hundred competent politicians in reserve they're not going to achieve anything. (View Post)

I think its interesting how hostile the Indy is to this government. (View Post)

It ultimately comes down to a desire to live beyond means. Its something governments are happy to pander to but the desire is too deeply intrinsic among too many people. (View Post)