Paul Lusk
Writing on democracy, politics and Christianity
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The icing on the gay cake and other older blogs
On the gay cake, what went wrong with Maycare, the persecution of Tim Farron, and more ...
Older blogs on the Ashers bakery 'gay cake'
case, why Tim Farron's
own colleagues hung him out to dry, how Care lost May
an election, and more.
A new book puts a Marxist frame around its picture of the Merseyside Housing Co-ops. How useful is that?
Hales Place in Canterbury was built as a 1400 home council estate to meet the needs of families and older and disabled people. Within a few years a quarter of the homes turned into high-density student accommodation. How did this happen?
We are told that the 'housing crisis' (the shortage of choice for younger home-seekers) results from limited housing stock. In fact the amount of homes has greatly increased relative to population in the last fifty years, while the real price of housing relative to income has more than doubled. So what is going on? We explain why building more homes will not solve the problem