Titbits – politicians’ housing plans, squatting foxes and Professor Green’s ring

■ The latest dispatch from the ever-whirring rumour mill is news that Hackney’s Cabinet Member for Regeneration has put his resplendent Sutton Place pad on the market for  cool £1.8m. Perhaps the strict conservation laws, of which he himself is the gatekeeper, mean  he is having difficulties knocking through an extension. No such problem for Mayor Pipe. Planning docs show he will soon be digging deep with a new basement excavation.

■ ‘Gentrification’, that most overused of words, peppers the pages of this newspaper but usually pertains to the territorial tribulations of people. Now it seems the animal kingdom has been dragged into our housing crisis. Wild foxes began squatting in the fallow deer’s gated mews over the summer. But now the council wants to round -up the feral creatures and dispose of them, because their burrows are hurting the legs of the poor little dears. How long until a skulk of foxes trots to the Town Hall to demand the well-hoofed Johnny-come-latelies swan back to Richmond?

■ Hackney rapper Professor Green likes his local council so much he put a ring on it. An Instagram post, taken (allegedly) of his hand, shows a green and diamanté rock chiselled into the ‘H’ shape of the Town Hall’s logo. The council is unlikely to object to such an abject display of tribalism but will they take him to task over the use of their brand, a la Nike circa 2006?