When reflecting on an important passage in Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical, Deus Caritas Est (published on Christmas Day 2005), the … Continue reading “Britain’s housing crisis: a self-inflicted tragedy”

Ian Mulheirn, the Director of Consulting at Oxford Economics and a former HM Treasury economist, has published an article arguing … Continue reading “How to define Britain’s housing shortage away”

Pope Francis likes to talk about how we have created an “economy of exclusion.” For example, in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii … Continue reading “High housing costs are the single biggest driver of poverty in the UK”

I saw a first sneak preview of Corbynmania about two years ago. It had nothing to do with Jeremy Corbyn, … Continue reading “How the housing crisis has created a generation of socialists”

Most readers of this column either already know this from first-hand experience, or they soon will: renting a flat is … Continue reading “Rent controls: popular but wrong”

On Conservative Home, Paul Goodman defended Theresa May’s defence of the state as the entity that does good. When the … Continue reading “You want ‘the good that government can do’? You’ll get the bad as well”