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Stewart Dakers: real estate

  • Residents campaigning at the New Era estate.

    How might the New Era estate story end?

    The new owners of low priced housing in East London have options for treating their existing tenants well
  • Emma Brockes

    The truth about Airbnb: not a racket, nor brothel, just sparing a dime on rent

    Emma Brockes
    Emma Brockes: Questions we should be asking about the startup: isn't it just a course correction for a real-estate system stacked against us? Also: is someone having sex in my bed?
  • Burglar breaking into house

    Petty criminals take their lead from the top

    Why dishonest financial bigwigs are much more prolific burglars than society's small-time offenders

  • Box of Christmas lights

    The ghost of Christmas past on the real estate

    How debt collector Wayne returned to the housing estate of his youth

  • A computer-generated image of the 2012 Olympic stadium

    Swifter, higher, stronger. But what about the losers?

    Stewart Dakers on the background that is driving Scrap to be an Olympic hopeful

  • Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street

    Men have their uses but are rather last century

    Action man is outmoded and male traits are not getting us anywhere, writes Stewart Dakers

  • A violent epidemic built on institutionalised misogyny

    Autism looks increasingly like the construct of a masculine culture, drenched in testosterone. Stewart Dakers explains

  • A speed camera

    We need nanny to constrain the trampling of the weak

    Nanny's job via speed cameras and the like is to ensure that the different are accommodated, the vulnerable protected and the incompetent supported, writes Stewart Dakers

  • Referee for Fifa

    This unsporting life

    Stewart Dakers: Contemporary sport acts as a magnet and a refuge for the disaffected opting for a petulant life of perpetual puerility

  • Evacuees

    Belated 'national service' teaches Enid to enjoy life

    Stewart Dakers: Former evacuee Enid has just gone through a major change of life. It shows that perhaps good things do come to those who wait

  • Crowded commuter train

    Communities need more overalls, less suits

    Stewart Dakers: There's a surfeit of suits applying for paid work in the voluntary corridors, but there is a serious deficit of overalls available to deliver

  • Stewart Dakers

    A* for courage and anguish, U for luck of the draw

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    Stewart Dakers: As a method of assessing standards of competence, exams are simply unfair and unrealistic

  • Flowers on a grave. Photograph: David Sillitoe

    Excluded, angry and destroyed by demons

    Stewart Dakers: As Michaela's funeral wept its way to the crematorium on Friday, there was in many hearts a reluctant sense of relief

  • Stewart Dakers

    My dislike for this woman goes beyond her disability

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    Stewart Dakers: How I faced up to a deep-seated prejudice against relationships between disabled people

  • Young boys in hooded tops

    There's a price to pay for the infectious sins of the fathers

    Bloody men! It's a sentiment regularly expressed by half the planet

  • Stewart Dakers

    Summary justice in the 'hood? Sorted with ease

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    The 'hood is self-reliant; it handles its own affairs and makes a total cock-up of it, writes Stewart Dakers

  • Christmas presents

    Knight in white trainers

    Chelsie's life on the estate is hard. Respite from drudgery and the mood swings of mum and her new bloke is a Christmas Eve night out. But is it going happen?

  • A cup of tea

    What divides us from the newcomers with attitude?

    Does reconciliation have to be preceded by atrocity, asks Stewart Dakers

  • An endless supply of women does not a family make

    Stewart Dakers: A few weeks ago, when Josh's latest "mother" moved out, he responded by egging the Baswamis' shop.
  • Civilian status cuts no ice when the gang comes calling

    Stewart Dakers: Billy got a bad smacking a few weeks back, the night of the England v Germany game.
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