An opinion piece with no recognition of how the fossil fuel industry has behaved anything but "responsibly" to date, and offering no evidence that the leopard can change its spots.
Also misunderstands current use of fossil fuel (at least in UK) - CCGT gas plants are used for peaking, not baseline.

Not forgetting Reform's friend across the pond totally fucking up everything they touch.

It's so easy to forget that most Americans have never left their home County, let alone their home State.

Insular and inward-looking is their default condition. Not being critical, just a statement of fact for context.

Yeah, but then we're all waiting for Boris to lie down in front of the bulldozers when construction starts, as he once promised, aren't we??

At least she said Argentina is taking "chainsaw to regulations" rather than "bonfire of regulations" - you know, that bonfire we saw in Grenfell thanks to deregulation....

Though I suppose that chainsaw is being taken to the Amazon rainforest.

Explained far better than I could.

Not just formalised, but automated. In a way that leaves those working in it with much less agency.
Another aspect of casual work (as it was then known) that led people to choose it was the flexibility it often offered, something today's version also removes.

Yeah, had an office in Ramsbury, just down the road, at the time, so it's etched in my mind.

The 21st century version of people congregating by the dockyard waiting for the managers to come and pick the numbers they needed for that day.
Utterly shocking, a century and more of worker protection thrown away.

They're still illegal to own, I believe. Legislation of itself doesn't stop shit happening, but it greatly reduces the amount of shit happening. If properly framed. And enforced.

And that followed some earlier banning of many types of firearm after the Hungerford massacre, so handguns and shotguns were about the only type of gun that could be held legally. Dunblane removed handguns from the legal list.

I'm old enough to remember attending an event where the successor to "E-gov", which was of course "T-Gov" was being promoted.

20 years ago.

It's been shown experimentally. There's the rub.

All these weird effects that theoretical physics predicts keep getting demonstrated, annoyingly.

Like time dilation in special relativity theory by sending 2 clocks in opposite directions in orbit.

All it does is encourage them :-)

You don't want things to go down in price.

That's deflation. It generally turns out to be worse than inflation - because it's a sign that the economy is shrinking all round.

Pride & Prejudice. 1 of the set text for my Eng Lit 'O' Level. Tried it 3x, never got beyond Ch. 3.
Read just the revision notes. 1 of the (3) q's I answered was on it.

Got a '2' (Oxford board, 1-6 were passes, 7-9 were fails).

1 of many reasons I think exams are a poor way to measure anything.

I'm not being stupid, am I, to note that I'm being initially triaged by algorithm when I call 111?