RentingForever

I think it depends where you live, tbh. Once one local rental agency starts using it the others quickly follow suit.

If it's a standard clause in that rental agency's contract, and you're in a market where many people are chasing the same place and will sign if you don't, and there's not much else available (all very common) then you don't really have a choice. I've certainly had that clause in two places I rented.

Standard rental contract in the UK now says white goods are supplied but not guaranteed to work and won't be fixed or replaced if they break down.

Back then you had to work for a company for a year or two before you became eligible to join the pension. And even then if you moved on after a few years you often got a return of contributions. So yeah, perfectly possible not to have much pension built up in those years if you did the usual thing of trying a few jobs on for size in your first ten years of working. Certainly happened to me (have since made up the shortfall).

I suspect most people would respond with a "haven't we learnt the lesson that complex issues can't be reduced to a binary yes/no?"

Not to mention the Tories won't be in government by the end of the year so at this point they can (and do) spout any old rubbish to position themselves for the hard-right leadership contest to follow their defeat. Nothing they're saying now has any chance of being implemented.

Access to the arts in London has become pretty much a rich person's game anyway in recent years - try getting a night out at the theatre or a concert for less than £50-£100 now; even many art exhibitions are £25 for a ticket. If she wants to opt out of the gentrification of the arts she needs to opt out of London.

Surge pricing is fine as long as it's completely transparent - ie you know at any point (and preferably in advance) what the unit rate is. Given how crap our energy companies are it will probably all be set/worked out after the event.

That's not the Boomers. It's their parents.

A big chunk of the money seems to have gone on glossy ads on Sky.

I'm not surprised. She must have been exhausted.

No wonder she looks so glum in the portrait over the sofa!

Somewhere there will be a middle man or rentier extracting all the value. It's the British way.

So much judgementalism in this thread! Having kids does not make you morally superior to those who don't; not having kids does not make you better than those who do. It's a choice you might have (but not if you have fertility issues, or aren't straight, or a hundred other reasons), not an obligation. Live the life that suits you and walk a mile in other peoples' shoes before judging them!

I stayed at their Bath hotel. Perfect for one person, a big squeeze for two. Got a free glass of wine and cheeseboard every evening! If you don't mind being out of the centre a bit, Travelodge have a few nice new hotels - the central Wimbledon one is good and a train will get you in to Waterloo in 15 mins, faster than the tube for many parts of London. They've smartened up their image lately; the newer places are more akin to a Premier Inn now.

Not the fresh blood, hopes and dreams of young renters?

From the press: "A statement from TPP said Hester “accepts that he was rude about Diane Abbott in a private meeting several years ago but his criticism had nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin”." His comments literally included the words "black" and "women"!

I think it's reasonable to set our baseline standard of living higher than mud huts with shit on the floor if we can.

Jacob Rees Mogg should have some to offload after the next general election.

A drop in the ocean compared to all the free money thrown at FHL places during COVID.

Lasted longer than Truss.

Intersex

Strictly speaking the Tories parachuted Sunak in as PM after Truss without a ballot of MPs or party members (as all the other candidates dropped out). So in that sense yes, he is an unelected PM.

Women - get back to your state-provided communal laundries!

Why would it be going to the millennials, not to Gen X first? Do we have evidence that boomers are putting their grandchildren in their wills rather than their children? I think the OP report was more about millennials scooping all that equity wealth up, but only once gen X have had their (short) time with it.