This is how seriously they take you renting into your 40s.

This street wouldn’t be half as beautiful with cars parked down it.

🥑🗽🏗🏘️ Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O Also spoilt mine.
Crazy that not a single candidate is going for growth, pro-business, pro-innovation, pro-development in one of the world’s leading tech and financial hubs. Literally no one to choose from.

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NEW COLUMN: Don't underestimate the impact of nimbyism on British growth

thetimes.co.uk/article/never-…

I’ve asked Max to proxy vote on my behalf while I’m away. The mayoral ballot will be spoiled.

Horrendous array of complete nonentities interspersed with genuine nutters. When will we get a serious candidate for London mayor again?

… awesome??

Boomers had it so good that they genuinely believe that handing over £10k in NI means they are owed £200k+ in pension.

That is the give and take they are used to.

Lee My parents weren’t even rich. Dad civil servant on modest salary, Mum worked part time, careful with their money.

Now they have a mortgage property worth nearly 7 figures, final salary pension and triple locked state pension.

4 holidays a year.

People who prefer the grey bleakness of winter need to be studied in a lab. How can you not prefer the air being a comfortable temperate and smelling of flowers? How do you not like little bees and birdsong? Why do you hate leaves?

It’s just robbing from the young to give to the old, all the way down.

What.

It's run by Steve Whybrow, a 46-year-old with 12 freehold properties earning him ground rent (money for nothing.)

Adam Smith condemned feudal rent extraction as parasitic centuries ago, but apparently we're still waiting for his 'capitalism' idea to catch on.

🚨 New: Nimbyest vs Yimbyest Local Councils via The Times and The Sunday Times

The Pensioners for Ground Rent are back, saying they will sue the government for “breaching their human rights under the European Convention” over the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill

Under Thatcher the Conservative Party peaked at two thirds of the London seats. Even under the Johnson landslide they took well under one in three.

But begging signs work!

There are 14 planters outside of Stratford International station, each with the same pictured note asking people not to litter or sit on them.

No prizes for guessing how many benches or bins are visible from most of them. (it’s zero).

It’s like trying to push water uphill.