Scottish Unionist politician and Conservative thinker wrote in 1923, that to make democracy stable, the government needed to promote a property owing democracy, to meet the rise of socialism with constructive conservatism. Margaret Thatcher’s Right to Buy policy was one of the defining policies of her long tenure in Downing Street from 1979-90, aimed at…
Daniel Lavelle’s Down and Out, reveals his own experiences as well as those of witty and complex, hopeful individuals he has encountered who have been shunned or forgotten by the state that is supposed to provide for them- in order to shine a powerful light on this dire situation. Daniel Lavelle, a freelance feature writer,…
What happens when there is a recession and an impeding cost of living crisis amid the Ukraine war, the wealthy buyers sought to take shield themselves from economic turmoil by investing in traditional bricks and mortar in Chelsea, Belgravia, Kensington, St John’s Wood, Mayfair, and Knightsbridge, instead of investment in equities or bonds. The sellers…