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Spare a thought for poor Mr Pennycook, Labour’s new housing minister. Before we do that, however, we should congratulate him on being the longest serving housing minister in the last 14 years. Well, if you count his period in opposition, that is. Let us all hope that this continuity will enable...
In July, CNN reported that the Chinese hosted a formal Taliban envoy in Tianjin, demonstrating the CCP’s intentions to pursue greater engagement with the region on its western...
“Rain does not fall on one roof alone.” (African proverb) Albeit debating the reasons along ideological lines, the world is getting to grips that climate change is an undeniable...
(By the time this article is published, Hurricane Ida will have made landfall and the aftermath will be already under assessment. One hopes, as always, that the damage is minimal...
They led to over 75,000 more overcrowded households during the pandemic. Covid-19 has been described as a 'housing disease'. Overcrowded living conditions make it easier for the...
The notion that stakeholders and stockholders battle for control of major business corporations is an oversimplification of a much more complex reality involving managers,...
That quote from a hit by Gwen Guthrie is rather echoing this morning as we look at another aspect of the housing crisis. I point out the song link partly because there was quite...
It was inevitable that lumber prices would eventually return to some state of normalcy. I wrote an article less than 50 days ago noting that futures and cash prices, despite...
My favourite word today is ‘unsubscribe’ and I’ve been online clicking it on dozens of emails asking for my cash contributions to their battle on behalf of the good, the true and...
It's all still to play for in the upcoming German elections, which will see Angela Merkel bow out after 16 years at the top. Now that the competing political parties are allowed...