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A newly educated and ever-larger class of private sector renter

by Savvas Savouri | Nov 29, 2022 | Golden Oldie, Residential Investor

Originally published October 2022. After nine years of enticing first time buyers (FTBs) into – and consequently inflating the prices of – new build, help-to-buy (HTB) is finally coming to an end. Over in the wider mortgage market, recent monetary chaos has spiked...

Time for an overhaul of England’s Environmental Land Management scheme

by Emily Norton | Nov 22, 2022 | Head Of Research, zOurWriters2

For a few dark days in summer 2022, England’s new Environmental Land Management scheme (ELMs) looked like it might be a casualty of Liz Truss’s bonfire. A coalition of farming unions and environmental NGOs alike jumped to its defence, lauding it as *the* post-Brexit...

The Great English Golf Boom, 1864-1914

by Michael Morrison | Nov 22, 2022 | The Historian, zOtherDiversions

A new book explains how, where and why golf took off in England in the late 19th century. Not many books on sport are written about who came second, but that is what this one is about. England was the second country in the world to take to golf in a significant...

To replace a US trade deal, Britain should form an economic union with the Commonwealth

by Scott Creswell | Nov 16, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Analyst

Originally published October 2022. Winston Churchill once said Britain should never escape from the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth. However, with the UK no longer a member of the European Union and the news that there will be no trade deal with the United...

Albania’s ghost towns: the crisis that caused the exodus

by Andi Hoxhaj | Nov 16, 2022 | Investor's Notebook, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Albania has a population of 2.8 million people, according to data published at the start of 2021. Since the fall of communism in 1991 nearly 40% of Albania’s population has left the country. Most Albanians who left in the 1990s and 2000s headed for Greece, Italy,...