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Twenty Years of Warnings, Zero Years of Action: How Britain's Housing Crisis Became a Climate Catastrophe

• via The Guardian

Twenty Years of Warnings, Zero Years of Action: How Britain's Housing Crisis Became a Climate Catastrophe

The heatwaves are here to stay, and so are the consequences of our inaction.

While ministers debate subsidizing air conditioning in 2025, the UK housing stock remains fundamentally unfit for the climate conditions we've already experienced. The 40°C temperatures that struck in 2022 weren't a distant possibility requiring decades of preparation—they were the arrival of a predicted reality that successive governments chose to ignore.

The £100,000 Trap: How Britain Built a System That Punishes Success

• via The Standard

The £100,000 Trap: How Britain Built a System That Punishes Success

Only in Britain Earning £100,000 Makes You Poorer

The mathematics of modern Britain reveal a peculiar achievement: we've constructed a tax system where earning £99,999 leaves you better off than earning £149,000. This isn't a quirk or an oversight. It's the logical endpoint of a state apparatus that views productive citizens primarily as revenue sources to be squeezed, rather than assets to be cultivated.

The Managed Decline of London: How Britain's Institutions Normalized Disorder

• via Bloomberg UK

The Managed Decline of London: How Britain's Institutions Normalized Disorder

A deliberate policy choices of leaders and institutions that redefined normalcy downward.

London's disorder is not only a failure of governance but also deliberate policy choice by Britain's institutional classes to redefine normalcy downward. From rampant fare evasion to the normalization of drug dealing, the managed decline of public order serves powerful interests while leaving citizens to bear the costs.