Can anyone explain where the extra costs of energy are going? Gas, oil, coal, wind and sunlight are all still supplied by nature free of charge. The people who collect them are still paid the same. Where's the money going?

Now THIS is a role for the state.

chrissiegrech.bsky.social Why would a gov't deliberately set out to harm its country? Well, it's what rich Russians did in the 1990s. And they bought up assets cheap, then sold them dear, and made the richest people in the world.

It’s Sunday, so time for one of my Nicely Abridged Books. Kafka in half-an-hour. The most famous 'existentialist' or 'surrealist' novel. Explanation is neither possible or necessary. thehundredbooks.com/Metamorphosis.…

@tanjabueltmann.net on Bsky Entirely correct. 'Gin' comes from the the Netherlands, and is a daily reminder of how the Dutch invasion of Britain in 1688 deposed our King James II to put their Willem Hendrik on the English throne. foodsofengland.co.uk/gin.htm

Some on Twitter (and in the Mail editorial team) seem to have forgotten the vital role of the court jester in times of old. Speaking truth to power in a way no one else could they shone a light on the pretentiousness of those in power. That's why we definitely need them now.

No, Edwina. Despite the name, radiators don't actually heat much by radiation, they heat by convection, so a reflector will do nothing at all.

🔥STUNNING new poem by Brian Bilston: ‘An Incomplete List of Things More Capable of Running the Country than the new Prime Minister’.

I thought "I'll put the TV news on", and then found that in the online, on-demand world, I don't actually know how you do that any more.

Well, one thing's clear. All the government's Graphic Artists have left...

Thanks DuckDuck and Amazon, but no...

Why, oh why, oh why, would anyone defer to this creature? I simply cannot understand. I can not understand.

I remember when Richard Murphy and David Henig 🇺🇦 talked ever so cautiously and politely about UK economy and trade. Their language seems to have changed in recent years. Wonder why? Follow them.

An anaclitic telephone call... youtu.be/d4Ya57iyRNI

RT - In today's J&M, Jesus describes the road to sainthood: jesusandmo.net/comic/latin

No, @BBCnews Truss isn't spending anything. We're spending everything.

Theologians. How's this... "We expect you to believe in God, but we don't ask you to know what God is. You discover that for yourself" Candler School of Theology Andrew Wilson @LivedTheology School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion The Centre of Theology and Philosophy

Some very sad news from me. Glyn took his own life last week. He’d been unwell for some time.

It's Sunday, so time for one of my Nicely Abridged Books. As gloom and thunder threaten, how about a half-hour with the original Frankenstein... thehundredbooks.com/Frankenstein.h…