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Good to see that RSHP are seizing the market opportunity by 'topping and tailing' the outcome of our perverse approach to macroeconomics since 2008 by capitalising on the growing inequality between super rich and poor. Chapeau.

I expect that one day, perhaps in 50-100 years' time our descendants will look back at this period and recognise that the unearned, unspent wealth that has accrued to the 0.01% *must have ended up coming from somewhere* (even taking account of relentless global money printing) and acknowledge that the booming rentier society (personified, for example, by the likes of Candy & Candy) have instrumental in the reason that so many of the young working poor can't afford their own shoebox.

In the meantime, it's helpful to keep trotting out factually incorrect statements about 'housing shortage' to assuage our social conscience. (27m 'homes' in the UK, 25m 'households' (ONS data), 80K empty properties in Greater London alone (BBC)).

The UK Housing crisis is primarily one of affordability and distribution, not supply.