Little Drop Of Poison

22/05/2026

Someone has fired the starting gun so I guess this is happening.

17/05/2026

Come buy stuff at the flea market, pub is also open until 4 which is unusual because it is Sunday.

09/04/2026

We're closed on Thursday for some staff product knowledge training but don't fret, we're back open again this weekend!

31/03/2026

Well, bu**er

The craft beer industry is in a free fall as consumers are becoming more health-conscious and moving to non-alcoholic beverages.

31/03/2026

We're closed tonight because I'm getting old.

03/03/2026

Brewery and bar owner Oliver says he has seen a significant decline in footfall due to sewage pollution in Exmouth.

As legal action against South West Water expands across coastal towns in Devon and Cornwall, business owners like Oliver are raising concerns that ongoing pollution could damage the region’s reputation.

Read Oliver’s story here: https://www.leighday.co.uk/news/client-stories/south-west-water-pollution-olivers-story/

22/02/2026

Excellent pint of Ankle Tap by in Molloys

21/01/2026

If we ban landlords, house prices will crash and everyone will be able to buy.”

Cool. Let’s actually run that fantasy for 30 seconds.

Because this idea refuses to die, and it’s built on one massive misunderstanding about how housing works.

Here’s the mental movie people are playing:

“5 million rental homes get dumped on Rightmove… prices collapse… renters all become homeowners… equality achieved.”

It sounds beautiful.

It’s also completely wrong.

A rented home doesn’t stop being a home because a landlord owns it. A flat with a tenant in it houses one family. The same flat with an owner-occupier in it also houses one family.

No extra housing magically appears because a title deed changes hands.

The shortage isn’t in ownership. It’s in buildings.

Now here’s the bit nobody likes hearing.

Most renters rent because they don’t have deposits, not because they love landlords. So if 5 million rental homes were forced onto the market tomorrow…

Some renters would buy, yes. But most wouldn’t.

Who would?
• Cash buyers
• Wealthy households
• Pension funds
• Corporations
• Overseas capital

Because forced sales = discounts. And capital always eats discounts.

That’s exactly what happened in:

Berlin
Dublin
Spain (after 2008)
The US after the crash

You don’t get “people power”. You get corporate ownership. So instead of 100,000 landlords owning 5 million homes… You get 5,000 funds owning 5 million homes.

Congrats …. you just invented mega-landlords.

Now here’s the bit that really breaks the internet:

A huge percentage of rental homes only exist because investors took risks normal buyers won’t.

HMOs.
Studios.
Commercial-to-residential.
Derelict buildings.
Empty offices.
Above-shop flats.
Mixed-use blocks.

These are not the cute three-bed semis on Zoopla. They become homes because someone raises capital, navigates planning, and does the messy work.

Remove landlords and those buildings don’t become owner-occupied utopias.

They become:
• Offices
• Hotels
• Or they get bought by BlackRock.

So no … banning landlords doesn’t make homes cheaper.

It just swaps: “Dave with 3 buy-to-lets” for “Global Asset Management PLC”.

And good luck ringing them when the boiler breaks. If changing who owns homes fixed housing, Berlin would be affordable. It isn’t.

Because the real problem is:
• Land
• Planning
• Build rates
• Infrastructure
• And demand chasing fixed supply

Not Bob in a semi-detached in Wrexham.

A housing shortage is solved by building and converting more homes.

Not by arguing over whose name is on the deeds.

Fight the shortage …. not the scapegoat 🦄

16/01/2026

Terrible photo but here's our lineup this week for

14/01/2026

What album makes you remember being 21, drinking a bottle of Jack, and thinking you could fight God?

The Offspring · album · 1998 · 14 songs