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Yes in theory but ... large private housebuilders buy up land and bank it, leaving it unbuilt to restrict supply and prevent competitors building. This drives up house prices without having to do anything.

Government likes using house prices as a measurement as to how well the economy is doing so they don't want to see house prices fall.

Building a shit load of houses to make them more affordable isn't in the interest of builders or government.

Did any other prominent people get divorced around the same time?

Interesting body language from her in that video.

In the near future Ukraine will be a major supplier of European defence equipment and consultancy replacing US suppliers. Necessity is the mother of invention.

I think people are still waiting for the Jeffrey documentary which would feature the Trump name anyhow.

So what's the point of the National Crime Agency (NCA)?

Good luck with that one.

From the same Orange Turd Putin Boot Licker whom deferred military service in Vietnam several times.

Here's a reminder.

We might as well.

Thames Water serves the area surrounding the river Thames from Kent, through London, Thames Valley to Wiltshire in the West and areas North and South of this line.

They produce 2.5Giga Litres (2,500,000,000) of drinking water per day.

They are probably the worst of the privatised water companies with unresolved supply problems, illegal sewage discharges and incurring huge debt in paying shareholder dividends.

Not in Scotland. This explains the situation with a privatised water company.

I bought a new dishwasher and that wants to be connected to the internet "to let me know when it's finished".

Leave your mobile phone at home as it knows when you're driving, speed, acceleration, routes, times. Then you have the CCTV on the roads tracking your every move with your licence plate and facial recognition.

And when you get home turn off the smart TV, smart fridge, smart dishwasher, doorbell cameras, Alexa's, Google's. These devices aren't for our convenience primarily; they're built to collect our valuable data about our living habits.

Digitally connected electricity, gas and water meters all monitor our usage thus working out our lifestyle patterns and habits. Even smart lightbulbs have the capacity to snoop on our private lives.

From the moment we wake up to turning off the light these connected devices quietly gather data about us innocuously... even when we sleep (phones monitoring breathing sounds).