Social housing and right to buy, a thread.

It is often said that the right to buy, under the Housing Act 1980, killed off social housing in the UK because it also prohibited the use of the receipts to build more social housing. One finds this claim on e.g. Wikipedia.
1/n However, if one looks at the data, we see a massive fall in social housing completions starting before the HA 1980 comes into effect at the end of 1981. This cannot have been directly caused by right to buy. Maybe the restrictions on spending on council houses came earlier? 2/n

“Expanding privacy law has given rise to a game of ‘guess who?’, cutting across public interest journalism and fuelling online gossip and misinformation. Hard to see the benefit, easy to spot the mess”

I agree, and it raises a wider point.

thetimes.co.uk/article/why-th… The English private law of privacy is a remarkable beast. It has been created almost entirely by judges *and* in the last 20 years (much of English private law falls only into one of those two categories).