Property
Why people would hate a property tax
My friend Tim Leunig is a cerebral thinker of the best kind. Though not party-political, he has worked for Tory…
Save our grey belt!
While working as a callow speechwriter for the Labour party in the mid-1980s, I suggested to a member of the…
Letters: You can grow to hate Wagner
Disappearing England Sir: Rod Liddle’s reference to Labour’s intention to build 1.5 million new houses (‘The great bee-smuggling scandal’, 13…
Peter Hitchens: I invented the ‘left-wing face’
Sitting ducks Sir: James Heale is right to highlight the important question about Rishi Sunak’s replacement (‘Who will lead the…
Who deserves a free lunch?
It is a tenet of neo-liberal economics that there is no such thing as a free lunch. This is obvious…
House alarm
Can the Tories survive a mortgage crisis?
Flat broke
Help to Buy has been a disaster for me
How far will house prices fall? Frankly, don’t ask me
‘Forecasting is a mug’s game’ is a truism attributed to everyone from fantasy author Douglas Adams to former Bank of…
Barometer
Stone me Boris Johnson threatened to unleash the ‘terrors of the Earth’ on an unidentified Tory MP who claimed that…
Barometer
Time for a change A bill before the US Senate would abolish daylight saving time. Some countries which have previously…
Real life
After most of Islington moved to Wales, it was foolish of me to think about following. But the need to…
Small matters
The difficulties of downsizing
What will you buy that others won’t?
In 1966, the legendary adman David Ogilvy set out to buy a home in France. He boarded a transatlantic liner…
Letters
Treading the boards Sir: As a teacher, I was sorry Lloyd Evans did not include school productions in his excellent…
Letters
Excess demand Sir: Liam Halligan (‘The house mafia’, 26 June) treats us to an exposé of the shoddy products of…
The political baggage of moving house
We are currently house-hunting — please let me know if you have one going spare. We are looking for a…
Will surging house prices send the English young to save Scotland?
Nicola Sturgeon depresses me and seems to be having the same effect on Scottish house prices. In a housing market…
Capital gains
Don’t pity me for living in London
How much longer can the Treasury rig the housing market?
The past 15 months have produced a bizarre economic paradox. In 2020, the economy shrank at the fastest rate recorded…
Blockheads
Why is modern architecture so ugly?
Hot housing
A second home in Cornwall is nothing to be proud of
The insanity of Britain’s housing market
On the day the Office for National Statistics announced a sharp rise in consumer price inflation, albeit to a still…
