The Guardian has a real hate boner for wood stoves. Yes, in dense urban areas they are not a good idea, but elsewhere it’s cheap sustainable heating. Some poorer folks really rely on them.

Fascists do wind themselves up over the weirdest things.

This stinks of someone who’d feeling super weak.

I think making a fuss about it would be the wrong approach. We should just calmly station more troops in Greenland, quietly impose retaliatory tariffs, and then go about our business. That would pile up even more pressure on Trump without the noise he’s craving to distract people from all his other troubles.

OMG, I agree with Owen Jones about something!

Those big companies are a problem, and should be broken up. The last thing we need is more of them.

Actual link: https://maps.dft.gov.uk/local-road-maintenance-ratings-map/index.html

He’s a piece of shit, but this stuff is only going to increase his appeal to his supporters. They like him because he’s a piece of shit.

I think a switch to PR would be more practical, and more effective.

Second-hand Nissan Leaf?

Energy prices are set to keep gas-fired power stations profitable because we need those power stations to keep the lights on. Sometimes. As we build out more renewables, the need for gas diminishes, but we still need it.

I agree with the proposition that we ought to be pushing for more renewables, but cutting the electricity prices so that gas-fired power stations close, whilst simultaneously eliminating the incentive to build more solar & wind… just doesn’t seem very smart.

That sounds like a terrible idea. Just one step away from a return to 1970s-style price controls. Unless you nationalise all the farms too, you end up just encouraging producers to shift to other crops, and that way lies Soviet style bread queues.

If you want to support poorer people, it’s far cheaper and easier to just give them more money.

As I understand it, much of the genuine need to food banks in the UK (remember, a relatively new phenomenon) is down to the inflexibility of Universal Credit. It used to be that you could sign on, and get cash in your pocket pretty immediately. Nowadays, there’s weeks of waiting. Let’s fix that, rather than trying to get the government into the supermarket business.

I literally think that Corbyn would struggle to organise a piss-up in a brewery.

Rents wouldn’t go up in general, because the rental market is driven by wages, not by landlords’ costs. Landlords already charge as much as the market can bear.

If there’s a negative consequence, it would be on the supply side. If letting becomes less profitable, then there’s less money for renovating and maintaining rental properties.

A timely reminder to never accept a caution (unless you are damn sure you would also plead guilty in court - because that’s essentially what you’re doing).

But what style of boot do you want?

Perplexity cites its sources though, so you can just read those when you suspect it’s halloucinating.

Decimated literally means “reduced by one tenth”. So I guess you’re right. A one third reduction is not “decimated”. It’s three times worse than that.

Malta. You just have to pay a (largish) fee, and they’ll have you.

Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries.

What??

If the Tories completely collapse, then next time the FPTP nonsense might favour Reform. If they get in, they’ll do everything they can to undermine democracy, and ensure they never get voted out.

Look at Hungary, and Poland. It took an almighty effort to get the fascists out in Poland, and it will take a lot of work to undo all the damage they did.