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Can someone put me straight regarding the new Energy Cap. The term "PriceCap" implies that this is the highest price permitted. However,do the energy companies see this as an invitation to simply slap the max price on the customer even though wholesale energy prices have gone down. I appreciate...

I have seen forms of society as developing situations. The ideal of communism is great if we all have nothing and there are loads of ignorant peasants to comply - the people living in that social system have all to be the same in terms of possessions and wealth. This,of course,cannot be...

Heating up sand brings back memories of electric storage heaters using off peak leccy. They worked quite well - Economy 7 etc.

I am on my third Niro hybrid but for my latest Niro I opted for the PHEV version having calculated that,being retired and considering the vast majority of trips it made sense to pay £5000 more and spend most of my trips using electric - in fact, Ihave to make sure I use petrol from time to time...

PS :- On Facebook Marketplace you don't even need to type in "Is it still available?" -- just press abutton! This is why, IMO, you get so many timewasters.

Text speak has bothered me for some time. It will destroy the art of communication as well as the ability we have to express ourselves and describe in the written form and,therefore the spoken word. I was trying to buy a mower on Ebay recently but failed to complete the deal as the seller was...

If the EU ever had any usefulness as a concept it is certainly no longer sustainable. It has managed to overload with poor eastern european countries all of whom have got in for the perceived financial benefits they will receive. No system can carry that load. The eu has lost it's way and,with...

I agree you have to be patient with Octopus. In the early days,before they took on loads of extra customers from failed "no frills" energy companies they were pretty quick in responding but they must have increased their workload massively in the last couple of years. However,I have always felt...

At my age and after many years of changing and,somehow,not feeling any better off at the end of the year and finally,after a time with a "no frills"energy company I was moved by OFGEM to Octopus with whom I am very satisfied. I feel I need to trust them as an honest company but the most...

I use an old Makita drill and did the dreaded thing - I bought two new batteries from China for £38 rated at twice the ah rating but no difference in physical size. I have had them for a few years now and they are great. OK, to begin with I didn't charge at night and watched it watched it...

Many of us are genuinely concerned about the dilution and disappearance of our native culture - look at what Holland did when,having welcomed migrants like Germany,suddenly realised that 8% of their population was muslim. yes,they did a quick uturn. I would imagine that if we look at demographic...

Going back to the initial issue,there is no doubt that we have a substantial number of work-capable young people who would rather not work to earn a living - why do we need so many immigrants to fill those vacances? Many pf our local deliveries are carried out by eastern europeans and they are...

As I have pointed out we make a point of becoming "friends" with our tenants and would always discuss and talk about their tenancy. It is our son's house in the UK while he works in the USA. He is now approaching retirement so is considering selling his UK house when the tenancy contract ends in...

Build simple hard to destroy council housing eg concrete walls and structure. Oops! I forgot you can't do that to anyone including scumbags. They have and always will be around. As a kid I delivered bread in my school holidays to "Dodge City". The scumbag element would chop up their internal...

I seem to remember a study into reducing the motoreway speed to 50 which proved that drivers get there quicker with less backups

The question of speed on our roads is a topical issue at the moment and there are pros and cons. In my area we are infested with 20mph roads. I quite agree that speed kills - this is borne out by many tests/videos. However,in my opinion (sorry IMO,we have a perfectly adequate variable speed...

As i pointed out in an earlier posting, the rot set in for private landlords when a silly politition gave DHSS tenants to chance not to pay their due rent thereby tearing up any rights they might have had to remain in your property. If a tenant has no respect for your property in which you have...

For over twenty years I have managed the rental of his house in a beautiful Grade 2 listed village on the Wirral as his job moved him over to the US for a short time! As a policy we avoided NHSS tenants and rented to a single mum who lived there for 13 years. We also had a policy of getting to...

Well, that's it and certainly not unexpected. However, the bells tolls for all of those working people,now retired,who have prudently saved for rainy days - we will be clobbered. OK so the tories certainly didn't deserve another term in office but the alternative is frightening. However,no good...

You can't govern a country when you spend all your time watching your back as your colleagues on both sides are hell bent on stabbing you in the back as they claw their way to the top of the sh**t heap - the elecorate? Who are they? and what's it got to do with them anyway?. No,if you take your...