Oliver Huitson. All rights reserved.
Sometimes real headlines look like jokes. Jon Stone’s piece for the Independent on October 16 provided a good example: “Landlord Tory MP Philip Davies says law requiring homes be fit for human habitation is an unnecessary burden.” Yet the headline was basically just a blunt factual statement: Davies is also a tenant, but is showing major concern over the fact that “[w]e’ve had lots and lots of legislation that affects landlords”, complaining particularly over the sense that “landlords appear to be an easy target for the Left in this country.”
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