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AI Is Going to Smash House Prices Forever

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Every week, another pundit crawls out of the financial media to tell you that artificial intelligence is going to be great for house prices. AI-driven productivity! A new wealth boom! Better property markets! Higher prices ahead! It is fraudulent nonsense. And Fred Harrison is going to explain precisely why, in terms that any honest person can follow, because the stakes could not be higher. We are not talking about a market correction. We are not talking about a slowdown. We are talking about a collapse that has no floor under the current system, and a fiscal catastrophe that will make the 2008 crash look like a minor inconvenience. Buckle up. The Doom Loop Nobody Is Talking About To understand what AI actually does to house prices, you need to understand what it does to the economy at three distinct but interlocking levels. First, the labour market. When a firm adopts AI and raises its productivity, what happens? Its competitors are forced to respond. And how do they respond? They sac...
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Why We Cannot Save Our Wildlife

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  UK NATURE & ENVIRONMENT — APRIL 2026 Based on Defra official statistics, published 28 April 2026 | Data: 1,185 species, 1970–2024 There is a real anger in me about the continued decline of British wildlife. I have spent 30 years watching all my efforts to save British wildlife come to little, and understanding why has been my passion throughout my career. I became a brilliant fundraiser and project manager; I was one of the first advocates of rewilding and helped make rewilding the dominant philosophy that it is today. But we are still losing, the ‘why’ is explored throughout my work and my writings. Read on. But first, let’s analyse the latest surveys and research. This week, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs published its annual update to the Indicators of Species Abundance in England, covering data up to 2024. it is one of the most comprehensive audits of English wildlife ever assembled. And what it shows is devastating. Since the baseline ye...
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You Want to Stop the Boats? Then Stop Causing the Boats.

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They are coming. Across the Channel in flimsy dinghies. Through the Sonoran Desert in crushing heat. Across the Mediterranean on vessels that were never designed to carry a human being. They are coming in numbers that are not going to slow down. They are coming in numbers that will, if history is any guide, eventually become overwhelming. And Nigel Farage is absolutely right about one thing. This cannot go on. The pressure on public services is real. The strain on housing is real. The sense in ordinary communities that something has broken, that nobody in charge is honest about the scale of what is happening, that the political class has collectively decided to look away and call anyone who notices a bigot: that sense is real, and it is legitimate, and it has been treated with contempt by people who should have known better. So yes. Farage is right. Something must be done. Now. Let us talk about what Farage will never, ever tell you. Because what he is selling you is the most expensive...
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The Economic Doom Loop is Here

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Your friend cannot sell his house. Sales are falling through across the country. Estate agents are watching their commissions evaporate. Builders have stopped buying land. The housing market is not slowing down. It is seizing up. And here is the devastating truth that almost nobody in power will say out loud: this is not the usual end of a property cycle. It is not a dip before the recovery. House prices, in real terms, may not recover for a very long time. If at all. I know how that sounds. But the situation demands honesty, not comfort. Five Fires. One Room. What we are living through is not a single crisis. It is something far more dangerous: a  doom loop , in which multiple civilisational crises interact, amplify, and accelerate one another in ways that no government on earth currently has the policy framework to manage. Think about what is already in motion. Trump’s geopolitical adventurism is cutting off food aid to sub-Saharan Africa. That hunger becomes migration. That ...
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