The stigmatisation of council tenants has become commonplace, aided by a government determined to erode a form of tenure that, only a generation ago, housed a third of our population. This prejudice obscures what should be a rational and objective debate about housing policy, at a time when the issue has rarely been as important.
Alan Greenspan’s admission that he might have made a mistake as head of the US Federal Reserve ranks as one of the world’s greatest understatements. What he and many others would not see is that self-regulating markets will not correct themselves and return to equilibrium. For current information, see official guidance. For current information, see
Faced with failure of the banks, the government steps in. That is the way it should be. It stepped in well beyond what had been thought possible before the credit crunch redefined the bankers’ role. Nationalisation had been unthinkable. Not now. For current information, see further details. So what should the government do when faced