If we reduced our demand by the shortfall in supply prices wouldn't go up at all right

Hey again 'Abigail' www.istockphoto.com/photo/tv-rep...

Headline from The Argus - 'Man fined thousands after failing to remove outbuilding he put up by his home' Pictured is Crawley Magistrates Court, but I have pretended that this is the outbuilding in question for comic effect because I am funny and skill

Well you can see why, it's massive

Is there anyone now in the UK who thinks our future prosperity should be tied to oil and not renewables? Anyone who thinks the Uk - one of the windiest places in the world with a great history of innovation and engineering - should remain dependent on a narrow shipping lane in the middle east?

fwiw the change to EPC C is a much bigger issue coming down the line for landlords. The changes coming into force now aren't anything different to what landlords should be doing anyway.

If it makes you feel any better it appears the apocalypse might at least be slightly delayed as the B52 bomber at RAF Fairford has broken down just before take off. Best wishes to you too Bette

The opposite of Wireless Festival is Leeds Festival.

And it depends on whether the help you are talking about is reducing the loan payments right now or reducing the total cost of borrowing over a lifetime. Each will be important to different people at different times

You can't really say whether any change will help one group or another as individual circumstance varies widely over the course of so many years. Capping the interest will help those who can pay their debt within the loan period - this will include advantaged and disadvantaged students

My feed, I guess like everyone's, flipping wildly between the best and worst of human endeavour

Sightseers today at two of the UK bases used by the USAF - Fairford and Lakenheath - as the clock ticks down on Trump's extraordinary threats. Photos by James Linsell Clark / Anita Maric @swnslive.bsky.social

bbc news: trump: 'a whole civlization will die tonight'

the most terrifying news bar i have seen in my life

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

I mean if he’s wants marmalade to only be applied to what is the original “marmalade” then the British people better start liking quince fruit lol

Future taxpayers, our kids, our kid’s kids

Extraordinary photo by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman. Took me a minute to figure out. The sun is behind the earth and the entire globe is illuminated by light reflected back from the moon, 1/4 second exposure 51,200 ISO. We've never seen our home like this before - nice one #NASA

Yet again the people of today (mostly older) are expecting the people of tomorrow (mostly younger) to bail them out so they can carry on business as normal. They did it with the financial crisis, Brexit, Covid, the 2022 energy crisis and on and on. At some point we've all got to cut our cloth

Supply is down. Demand MUST fall to align with supply. This can happen through 1) increased prices, 2) rationing 3) switching to alternatives. Surely Government spending should be to assist 3 and do 2 to minimise 1. Govt paying part of the price will not make demand go down. Or supply up.

One would have hoped that a great advantage of going to the moon would be not having to check outlook

This damned post makes me laugh every time I see it.

Fair use, baby.

Oof

But look how happy he is

I heard there was
a secret cord
that David kept
in his cable hoard
but he can never find it
when he needs it

Before our daughter was born I spent ages trying to choose the best baby monitor so we'd be able to hear her if she cried out in the night. First time she cried out in the night I think they heard her in the next town along. Given the time again I'd have spent the money on earplugs.

I stopped going the barbers for three years because i got so fed up waiting two hours behind three people having skin fades

Frustrating to think that governments could have done the green transition practically for free in the 2010s and now here we are, worrying about oil prices again

Welsh local newspaper: FOOTPATH PROVES POPULAR.

May all your days be Slow News Days.

I was talking about the lights our council put up and I saw it more in symbolic terms. I saw little evidence that people moderated their energy use that winter despite the huge cost. In contrast, in France there was a govt Plan de sobriété énergétique

I remember that winter clearly, thousands of Christmas lights blazing through the night. Zero recognition that we were sticking that cost on a credit card which our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren will end up paying