Where will we live?

James Meek: The Housing Disaster, 9 January 2014

... share price based on the number of letters they’d posted over their lifetime. According to Hugo Young, Thatcher had to be talked into Right to Buy by a desperate Edward Heath, then her leader, who’d been persuaded by his friend Pierre Trudeau after his electoral defeat in February 1974 that he needed a fistful of populist policies. No wonder Thatcher ...

The Price of Safety

Clair Wills: Constance Marten’s Defiance, 14 August 2025

... in court, she spoke of the importance of the maternal bond: ‘I don’t think it’s fair on a young baby not to experience that … she needed to be with her family as long as possible.’ She explained that they were convinced they needed to keep moving in order to avoid local authority jurisdiction over their daughter. This was the reason they were on a ...