To understand Britain, watch “Homes Under the Hammer”
Inside the dream factory
If the British dream exists, Dion Dublin has lived it: he is, after all, a former footballer who became a landlord. As a Premier League stalwart, he reached the top of the national sport. As a presenter on “Homes Under the Hammer”, a wildly popular daytime TV show about the buy-to-let property market and a landlord himself, he is a symbol of the national obsession.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The British dream”
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