The Great British Housing Farce: From Council Castles to Renter’s Rights — A Comedy in Several Acts by Lawson Akhigbe

Margaret Thatcher There is a particular genus of political problem that thrives not on its insolubility but on the extraordinary usefulness of its apparent insolubility. The British housing crisis is the finest specimen of this genus in modern democratic history. It has survived Thatcher, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss (briefly, like a mayfly with …

The House Always Wins: Britain’s Six-Decade War Against Its Own Tenants by Lawson Akhigbe

There is a particular species of political genius that consists in creating a problem, blaming the victims of that problem, and then campaigning for re-election on the promise of solving it. Britain did not invent this genus of statecraft, but it has, over sixty years of housing policy, perfected it to an almost symphonic degree. …

The Chicken Thief, the Accountant and the Party in Power by Lawson Akhigbe

Tinubu, Osinbanjo and Buhari President Bola Tinubu has repeatedly defended his economic reforms by arguing that Nigeria stood on the precipice of fiscal collapse when he assumed office in May 2023. According to the President, the removal of fuel subsidies, the floating of the naira, and other painful economic measures were unavoidable decisions designed to …