I know that we all know that the housing market is a sick joke, but I couldn't resist drawing everyone's attention to this example in what might kindly be described as one of the less fashionable par… (View Post)

Hardly surprising: a logical consequence of decades of increasingly constricted supply followed by a sudden hike in interest rates causing a stampede exit by landlords. Of course you're going to end … (View Post)

Indeed. Fundamentally, the cost of accommodation is a total rip-off - and it's even worse for renters than mortgage payers. Myself, if I was a renter - even living as I do in a modest one-bed flat - … (View Post)

Except that they don't need to plan for falling populations, they need to implement the correct policies to stabilise the population, or at any rate to bolster births enough that the decline is gentl… (View Post)

The state. It will have to, to get us out of this shit - though that won't be a quick or easy process. It'd probably take the first Parliament of a mass housebuilding programme just to plan a swathe … (View Post)