Housing
Letters: the militant suffragettes set back their own cause
Suffragette setbacks Sir: Jane Ridley (‘Women on the warpath’, Books, 10 February) claims that Millicent Fawcett and her suffragists had ‘got nowhere’…
There is no housing crisis. It would be easier if there were
Britain does not have a housing shortage. We have a problem with the cost not the availability of homes. This…
Are cruise liners the solution to the housing crisis?
Looking at the sketchbook of William Whitelock Lloyd, a soldier-artist who joined a P&O liner after surviving the Anglo-Zulu War,…
Hammond can build his way out of trouble
Sometimes in life the biggest risk you can take is to play it safe. This is the predicament of Philip…
The London mayoral election will be a battle between whatsisface and whatsisname
London, 2012. It’s Olympic year, and east London is sprouting anew, and our city feels like the capital of the…
Home is where the heart is
99 Homes is an American drama about house repossession. Bummer, you might think, but here is what you don’t yet…
Last orders
The fight to save the Gladstone Arms is the fight to save London
City life
To gentrify or not to gentrify. That is the question, says Stephen Bayley
Barometer
A dangerous hobby Three men from Greater Manchester were arrested and held in the UAE after being seen writing down…
The war on rural England
The coalition is letting developers concrete over the countryside, but that won’t help young people buy houses
Portrait of the week
Home The government spent days announcing how the Autumn Statement would allocate funds. ‘Frontline’ parts of the National Health Service…
Cornish and pasty
Mousehole is a charming name; it is almost a charming place. It is a fishing village on Mount’s Bay, Cornwall,…
Investment: America vs gravity
Reality may be about to reassert itself after an extraordinary hot streak
How our rich new neighbours can help solve the affordable housing shortage
The mega-rich are best housed behind high fences, on wooded estates patrolled by dogs; that way, they don’t have to…
