The severe shortage of council housing is not a simple failure by local authorities, but rather the result of forty years of national Right to Buy legislation and central government funding restrictions that legally compelled councils to sell off over two million homes while blocking them from building replacements. The crisis exists because Margaret Thatcher’sContinue reading “Forced To Sell, Forbidden To Rebuild”
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Royal Reality Check
Prince William, freezing beside the wheelie bins, turned one night of rough sleeping into a royal gut‑check on homelessness. Prince William, twenty‑seven years old and shivering beside Blackfriars Bridge, learned in one night what it means to disappear: a future king lying in minus four degrees as a road sweeper almost ran him over, unseenContinue reading “Royal Reality Check”
Down Syndrome: Heartbreaking Cruelty
Children with Down syndrome endured terrible abuse throughout the Victorian era. Many were left to die in hospitals, their deaths quietly attributed to “natural causes.” At home, they were frequently concealed away, sent to asylums, or disconnected from their families – out of sight, out of mind. The term “Mongol” was used back then, coinedContinue reading “Down Syndrome: Heartbreaking Cruelty”
What Will King Charles Do To Save The Magical Gas Lamps From Council Numbskulls?
Aran Osman is perched 12 feet up a ladder on a dim and drizzly evening in Central London, tinkering about with a 100-year-old gas lamp in the gloom. Most of us would be moaning or cursing, or grumbling under our breath, but not Aran Osman as he swings the small glass door open on itsContinue reading “What Will King Charles Do To Save The Magical Gas Lamps From Council Numbskulls?”
