What just happened in Newington Green?

In periods of rampant general inflation, which is what we'd be talking about, wages rarely keep up, even remotely. E.g. Germany in the 1920s, Zimbabwe etc.
But yes it assumes that wages wouldn't rise in line. I think their point is more that this one area which is so incredibly important to our lives, which shapes the way we live, literally, has gone up so much and we should be more outraged. Which we should!

No, they specifically claim that "If everything had risen at the same rate as housing our lives would be untenable." which is nonsense.

Property developers, sharky buy to let landlords, they all did. Profiting from their own good fortune and the misfortune of others. Cnuts.

Making a fortune from living in a house is silly, but does anyone really get to enjoy that money? You would have to sell your home to realise the profit, and you will then have to buy another home to live in. When you retire and downsize maybe you can, but is that any different from any other type of long-term investment, such as a pension?

No, but selling off most of our social housing hardly helped the situation, especially for those most in need. What neu said basically, but she did worsen it, not fail to make it better.

I don't think the lack of adequate housing is a problem caused by Thatcher introducing right-to-buy. There were (and are) whole estates of inadequate council housing too, and before the war, all those inadequate slums. Far too many people have always been denied access to decent housing - it's the one bit of the stats I had no argument with.

Bloody Germans and their body confidence, why can't they be all repressed like us Brits?!

When I lived in Germany, I once looked out of my lounge window and could see 4 naked people. Two of them were even leaning out of their windows in order to chat between floors.

The horror, the horror!

But if you did, naked people would generally be thinner and better looking =)

Anyone can be naked. You don't need to be rich to exhibit your nakedness

Ouch!

i bet they are having more fun than being YOU!