From my article in yesterday’s The Sunday Times.
“Ministers quite literally purchased prime real estate, proper palaces in major town and village cores and – also quite literally – gifted that formerly private property to committees of associations of fans of a very specific genre of music. That’s very generous, no doubt. But is it fair? You don’t have to take a fiscally conservative small-government stance to wonder about the wisdom of government interference in a straightforward dispute between a landlord and a tenant. Is it sustainable for the government to step in with public funds every time the courts apply the law and rule that the landlord is entitled to evict a tenant?”