[brooksby]

Can someone please explain how the energy price cap works.

Specifically: in what way is it a “cap”?

I read that the price cap is increased, then will be increased again, and so on and so forth.

I also read that the energy companies’ profits have been increasing massively.

So, in what way is the energy price cap what the chap on the Clapham Omnibus would understand to be a cap (ie. a limit)?

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[chrisonabike]

And pretty much everyone now

And pretty much everyone now agrees with that.

[chrisonabike]

Something something PR

Something something PR merchant something something clothing branding er … making other countries spend more money on weapons … er … financial corruption …

[Rich_cb]

Same here.
Same here.

The legacy of that war is nothing short of horrific and it was all based on lies.

[Rich_cb]

Yes, that’s been my approach,
Yes, that’s been my approach, unfortunately ‘fringe’ viewpoints often come from stopped clock websites.

99% nonsense with a grain of truth every now and again!

[chrisonabike]

Must be channelling the

Must be channelling the Stalinka or maybe Mao suit?  Oh, wrong “side”…

Anyway clearly a sign of a poseur or tinpot dictator.

[hawkinspeter]

Mungecrundle wrote:

Mungecrundle wrote:

It may not exactly be good v evil, but one side in this conflict are definitely evil and apparently getting their sorry arses kicked all the way back to mother Russia.

I don’t have any strong opinions on Ukraine and Zelensky, but I’m pretty sure that Putin is not someone I’d want to get more money and power than he’s already got. Unfortunately in conflicts, it’s always the poor that suffer the most.

[brooksby]

Roulereo wrote:

A load of stuff…

All I said was that green t-shirts aren’t exclusive to the army!

[chrisonabike]

Rich_cb wrote:

Rich_cb wrote:

It was the Iraq war narratives that made me realise how unreliable our apparently independent media really is. We’re in a post truth world now, for better or worse.

There’s nothing to stop you shopping around – choice is good, right?  If you put in the linguistic (and cultural…) legwork you can also compare and contrast with news from around the world.  It’s never been easier.  I got into that when living abroad and it is incredible just how divergent viewpoints from different countries are.  However for bigger events it is quite often possible to distil some common “agreed facts”.

Unfortunately despite a massive expansion in possible inputs many people still choose to get their news from a small pool of sources.  So not much change from asking Sue at the corner shop for the gossip.  With a massive expansion in “coverage” there’s more temptation for journalists to make use of stories from elsewhere with zero fact checking.  Or to just decide that “opinion” is what you’re going to put out.  Indeed the meaning of “journalist” has become much wider and looser.

It’s human nature to favour slogans and stereotypes over the complexities of reality.  In the case of the Ukrainian Azov battalion this requires more historical understanding that either the West or Russian narratives normally deliver:

https://www.ft.com/content/9f9a7aee-04e7-45ce-871c-f5d157e08d08

[Mungecrundle]

It may not exactly be good v
It may not exactly be good v evil, but one side in this conflict are definitely evil and apparently getting their sorry arses kicked all the way back to mother Russia.

[hawkinspeter]

Rich_cb wrote:

Rich_cb wrote:

It was the Iraq war narratives that made me realise how unreliable our apparently independent media really is. We’re in a post truth world now, for better or worse.

I’m still waiting for Tony Blair to be held accountable for war crimes

[Roulereo]

Come on…he’s the greatest

Come on…he’s the greatest PR merchant ever,  using his media skills to spin his way around the world on his crowdfunding for weapons tour. The ‘army’ t shirt is his brand, it’s such a costume to try to show that he’s a fighter, war hero, etc. His recent Vogue photo shoot was the only time he hasn’t been seen in one, I guess Armani don’t make tight fitting khaki t-shirts. 

He’s just upped the ante on his forever war, he’s now talking about taking Crimea as being a requirement. The Russian speaking population there may want to have a say in that.

He’s grifted more than 17 billion Euros in cash and much more in arms out of more than 50 Governments, he’s even bled Microsoft and Google direct. I’d be surprised if he wasn’t sending an automated invoice to the USA, UK, etc. for this Proxy war. The arms black market is flooded now with arms the West ‘donated’ and have either been on-sold or missappropriated back out. Nice one. 

Why are you insisting on funding this guy, who wants to fight to the last Ukranian in a losing war. For what?

Get these sociopaths to the negotiating table. 

[Rich_cb]

It was the Iraq war
It was the Iraq war narratives that made me realise how unreliable our apparently independent media really is.

We’re in a post truth world now, for better or worse.

[Rich_cb]

I’m hoping to be joining you
I’m hoping to be joining you soon, have put down a deposit on a system and just waiting on it now.

Will probably be in place just in time for winter at this rate!

[Rendel Harris]

Roulereo wrote:

None on Zelensky banning Gay marriage

Zelensky has said that his government is prioritising legalising civil partnerships for gay couples; he also said that Ukraine’s constitution defines marriage as being between a man and a woman and he cannot introduce constitutional change during a war, but that he will be lookng to do so as a matter of priority once the war has ended. Which doesn’t sound like banning to me (which in any case implies that it was there to ban, which it wasn’t).

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

I’m one less user drawing from the grid when all the demand for aircon threatens us all with blackouts.  On sunny days, I put out 2-3 times what I use. If I generate 15 kWh, I cover that day’s energy standing charges – riches indeed. I started in February, so haven’t yet experienced the horror of December and January. 

Slate.com had an article about how weird they find it that Europeans would rather get hot and sweat than just get decent aircon fitted…

And yet a couple of weeks ago they also had an article about an outdoor shopping area in one of the Gulf states which had aircon.  Yes – huge aircon units to keep an outdoor area cool in a Gulf state… 

[Author]

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