Great comment, Deborah, it is crazy how difficult it is to build homes these days. It seems we’re in a quandary, we either need to stop demand rising so much, which would mean cutting out migration, so the population numbers stop growing so much, and pushing marriage harder, so that there are less single people pushing demand up so much, or we need to build more houses in the places people want to buy them.

The problem is, we can’t seem to stop demand rising, because we can’t seem to stop migration simply because we can’t seem to persuade anyone other than migrants do the jobs none of us over here seem to want to do, nor can we increase the marriage rate, because we can’t seem to find a way for men and women to start across the board getting along better again, and we can’t find a way to build more houses in the places people want to buy them because of regional inequalities.

It’s a crazy toxic mix which is going in take a lot of time to find a way out of.

Also, I have to say, Edwin Chadwick is one of the most underrated people in history, he changed things in such an unprecedented way, and yet hardly anybody even knows who he is. It’s crazy.