Hello from the UK! I know the public charging infrastructure over there isn't as good as it is here but PHEVs already look really silly in Europe. There just isn't a use case for them anywhere.

92 here, which is roughly half of what the heat pump used. Half price heating for November isn't bad!

You're probably right, we don't know yet - I just think it hands the anti clean tech lobby a great headline!

This is, as always, a nuanced and well-informed rant. I think all we EV drivers knew that some sort of tax was coming but I maintain it's a bad look to introduce a new tax for EVs without reintroducing the fuel tax escalator.

Not bad economics, poor politics.

I've been forced by circumstance to end a friendship and it's no fun at all. I don't have any advice beyond nod politely and move away, but it is difficult. My sympathies.

Steady on old chap.

We thank the bus driver.

I know a little about the telecoms world and this is certainly true for mobile phones. An awful lot of people are paying more than they need to.

Trust me, it's not common inside the public sector either.

Everyone should have to work retail or waiting jobs for a year.

I completely agree with your original post and I see I gave it a like at the time, applying a new tax to EVs while continuing the fuel duty freeze seems counter productive though.

Hm. I don't drive much any more but it turns out it's really nice to be able to see the TV clearly, and to see my surroundings clearly when I'm walking out and about.

I can even read the little time counter on the blu-ray player!

David Tennant's Saab survived The Hack - I was expecting it to, to be honest, it wasn't an explodey sort of series. Not physical explosions, anyway.

I'm glad Sophia's school did what they could, however limited that was. That's the only ray of light in this sorry saga.

My encounter with one of these people in real life left me feeling that she was just a bully who had found a group she could bully and get away with it - not just get away with it but enjoy the support of people on X. You are not wrong.

This was a very off-the-cuff post which has gained a little traction so I am sorry that I didn't mention those who died and the grief of their loved ones. That figure of 23,000 premature deaths is... Well, I don't know the word. Unconscionable is as close as I can find.

I'm going to claim 2 - never did the boombox thing and while we didn't have an encyclopedia set there was one from my dad's childhood at my grandma's house.

Faxes still have specialist business uses mind you.