I’m a regular Desert Islands Discs listener. A regular, but always emotional and heartwarming trope, is the influence of teachers, or usually a teacher, on the now-successful. They can often quote their encouragement word for word, and this week’s guest had kept a note written to her by her teacher for forty years or more. None went to Eton, but to comps and sec mods where they might otherwise have been written off. And thankfully their teachers didn’t chase the big bucks. Listen to Ian Wright and I dare you not to be moved
“How can lifelong renting be made more compatible with retirement saving?”
Here’s a future problem that will doubtless be kicked down the road until it becomes a crisis. There’s a whole generation who may never be able to afford to buy their own homes.
