Over the coming months, Backbench will be partnering with Torrin Wilkins, Director of Centre Think Tank for a series of comment pieces. In his column, Torrin will explore prominent policy issues – some of them related to the latest news…
Over the coming months, Backbench will be partnering with Torrin Wilkins, Director of Centre Think Tank for a series of comment pieces. In his column, Torrin will explore prominent policy issues – some of them related to the latest news…
Problems with the housing market in Britain are certainly not new, but they are persistent. To put it simply, the UK does not have enough homes, and in turn, housing is increasingly unaffordable. For decades, house building has occurred too…
A recent article by Sonia Sodha in The Guardian bemoans the suggestion by pensions minister Guy Opperman that young people could be allowed to dip into their pension pots to raise the necessary capital for a deposit on a house. …
It’s not a good time to be young. The generation gap is so wide that ‘luxury’ housing developers could even start building there – fleecing students for 80% of their income, no doubt. Cynicism is an easy philosophy to adopt…
In one year in England and Wales, 200 sex offenders were released from prison without having anywhere to live. About half of these sex offenders were deemed to pose a ‘high’ or ‘very high’ risk to the public. Though worrying…
It has been three years since the Grenfell Tower fire. 72 people lost their lives and hundreds more were displaced. It’s also over a year since Theresa May, in her resignation speech on the steps of Downing Street, claimed pride…