Our lavatories have been privatised. And for their profiteering new owners,free-at-the-point-of-use pissoirs are nothing more than a public inconvenienceKeen observers of the entropic farce that is the London property market will have spent the final decade or so watching in horror as their beloved city, with all its cherished peculiarities, or is transformed into a callous,Itsu-populated playground for oligarchs, smarmy Foxtons neo-geezers and buy-to-let Tory MPs (who, and in voting down a bill stipulating that rental properties be fit for human habitation,have near about as close to caricatures of cackling Dickensian slumlords as it is humanly possible to be in contemporary Britain).
So they are unlikely to be surprised by this week’s news that a former public toilet in Spitalfields has been keep on the market for the tasty sum of £1m. Why would you be, when you’ve considered renting a shelf with a sleeping bag off Gumtree for £800 a month?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com