Jamie Douglass
@jamesldouglass
PR chap, martial arts enthusiast, oenophile, occasional musician & fanatical book-lover. Tweed and corduroy are the original performance fabrics
how do you feel about people banging on about the Lesser Free Trade Hall gig?
Okay, it literally does! Chapeau and many thanks indeed to @stretchycarrot.bsky.social
"lack of housebuilding" isn't true though? The second bit was from the turn of the century until about 2015 when the regs started to chance. On dual incomes: yes, since 1950 we have seen a steady, almost straight-line increase in female participation in the workforce, but....
My wife has informed me she “thinks the cat drinks when we’re not looking”
I mean, this is, in fact, the current situation. Between 2000 and 2019 we needed around 170k extra houses to be built per year. We built 176k.* And sold them. What's that? "To UK-domiciled people at less than 5x the median income"? Sorry, you're going to have to be a bit more specific *evidence:
I mean, none of this is *bad* advice? It's just that in the same way as every "money-saving tip" turns out to be "spend less money", every "heat management tip" turns out to be "be less hot" www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Yep. In 1979 if you earned double the national average income you were in the top...12% of earners? And you were competing with "not many people" for "some really nice houses". The flattening of the income distribution curve - eg "falling inequality" meant a lot more competition for normal housing
*small voice* if anyone needs me I’ll be, um, over there. Rearranging my matches.
Maybe she did, maybe she didn't, but any implication - am I alone in inferring one? - that her views align with the majority public view would be inaccurate (in the sense of "utter twaddle")
(also, the natural implication of this graph - that criminals, whatever their MORAL failings, are reasonably good corporate citizens - could inspire some truly interesting policymaking)
1. Are we certain he didn't just discover he liked onions? 2. I mean it is a bit