How Abu Hamza’s wife bagged herself a five-bed council house
The UK’s bonkers way of distributing council housing, and the British state’s apparently limitless capacity to extend generosity to people who show it nothing but contempt, are two of the things that most wind me up. And so, naturally, I’ve had a lot to get me going in recent months. The news in May that we had been accommodating the first lady of Sierra Leone in social housing was, I thought, the low point of this particular genre of state dysfunction.
- ▪The UK’s bonkers way of distributing council housing, and the British state’s apparently limitless capacity to extend generosity to people who show it nothing but contempt, are two of the things that most wind me up.
- ▪And so, naturally, I’ve had a lot to get me going in recent months.
- ▪The news in May that we had been accommodating the first lady of Sierra Leone in social housing was, I thought, the low point of this particular genre of state dysfunction.
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How Abu Hamza’s wife bagged herself a five-bed council house The British state’s generosity to the people who despise us has become suicidal. i Picture by: Getty dataLayer.push({ event: 'author', author: "Ameer Kotecha" }) Ameer Kotecha 28th September 2026 i Picture by: Getty Share Topics Politics UK Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. The UK’s bonkers way of distributing council housing, and the British state’s apparently limitless capacity to extend generosity to people who show it nothing but contempt, are two of the things that most wind me up. And so, naturally, I’ve had a lot to get me going in recent months.
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