November 2015

The politics of envy…

The Government’s attempt to annihilate the buy to let market as a form of investment was unexpected, unwelcome and unreasoned.   As always, private landlords have been portrayed as exploitive and greedy, fulfilling the role of arch villain in Britain’s housing market, providing the greatest obstruction to the younger generation wanting to take their first step onto the housing ladder. Correct? Not...

Good news is no news…

A recent article in The Guardian left me somewhat slack jawed with disbelief.  I know what you are thinking, not my usual, but in the interests of fairness, I thought that I would take a tentative step into the flip flop wearing world of Ed and Ed.  Incidentally, the Collins Dictionary definition of a Guardian Reader is: ' a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal,...

Post Summer Review

Having returned from my vacation (get me, all transatlantic and WASPish-look it up if you don't know what it means), I realised that summer was most definitely over.  I know this because there is a house in Cardiff festooned with smirking Santas, flashing snowmen and frolicking elves who by the look on their faces have been told that they are on a zero hours contract; and this was before I had locked...

The headline doesn’t always tell the story…

Some headlines of last week did leave even The Chesh-the most ardent of human rights supporters...-thinking, 'ooh, there will be trouble in the goalmouth with that one'.  The header that caught the attention the most (thus achieving every advertising executive's Holy Grail of the headline making the headlines itself), was the tag line on the Cardiff agent Cathays advertisement for, "a good looking girl to...

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