The cause, even. Yeah this language thing is tricky.

A cut suggests very short term and temporary though. "The effects of a power outage" seems ok to shorten to "power outage", outage seems broad enough to be either the cause or the effect. Because the actual effect was a fire...

I wouldn't describe this image as a power cut. Seems like more than a temporary two minutes without power.

Press ganging was all the rage in the Napoleonic Wars TBF. Seems on brand for 2025.

The government's treatment of people aged 18-22 is bizarre. Different minimum wage, different benefits, but these are legal adults with all the same responsibilities, taxes and rights (apparently) as everyone else. You're right, it's brazen age discrimination.

I mean it was literally one of the Conservatives' election policies last summer, absolutely surreal to see Labour proposing the same now. Added to Torsten Bell's horrendous proposals to stop giving money to young disabled yesterday, even the Tories wouldn't have dreamt of being this sadistic.