By owning your own property, you get a say in planning law too – your objection to that new tower block counts for far more than the indirect, dissipated unease of all the people hunting desperately for somewhere affordable in the vague vicinity of their work.
It's amazing the way people who have no objection to a figurehead royal get annoyed any time he gets involved in controversies.
I hear that they asked the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths for advice, but I'm astonished to hear that they felt they had no power to even suggest that they should change the storyline about the mother of the dead baby swapping him for the live baby, so they didn't even raise an objection to that.
So he tested that objection, calling a friend at Windsor Council, Liam Maxwell, asking him to see how long it would take to make the local authority's data transparent.
The Irish finance minister, Michael Noonan, reportedly said: "I think everybody should pay what's due and abide by the rules in Europe but I have no objection to the British government settling their account by way of instalment over 2015.
We also found no strong objection to the Strasbourg court, given the vital role it plays in guarding against abuses of the kind that plagued Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
I believe that the authors are not boycotting the award purely as a simplistic objection to racist or mocking depictions.
The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, made no objection to the case going ahead, although his department has insisted the new rules are lawful.
John Bercow, the Speaker, said he would give serious consideration to Salmond's objection after it was revealed in the Queen's speech that the government would try introduce the change through amendments to parliamentary rules known as standing orders.
The objection is embodied by a letter that more than 200 PEN members have signed, "there is a critical difference between staunchly supporting expression that violates the acceptable, and enthusiastically rewarding such expression".
Contributions have so far included a letter from the playwright Caryl Churchill, who also takes the theme of conscientious objection, and one from the former poet laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, wondering whether the soldier has just written rather than received his letter.
