The Right To Live Anywhere?

After the fire at Grefnell Tower a lot of us quite rightly felt sympathy for the survivors.

Grefnell Tower Disaster ....

However it appears that many of the residents were in fact people who had chosen the most expensive and desirable post code in the UK, in which to declare themselves 'homeless' in the first place. They were not native born and bred in the borough, so therefore had deliberately chosen their place of homelessness.

Democracy's Future

The BBC have recently run a 'democracy day' series of posts ....

Democracy ~ The Best Of Some Bad Options.

 

I don't know whether this is coincidental to the recent events in Paris, where decidedly non-democratic voices have been heard, post the jihadist attacks, or just coincidence, but the latest of these posts highlighted that Europe faces a "crisis of democracy".