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Whoops! We will amend. Ta.

Alex I just want you to know this is terrific content

"Are you SURE you meant to unsubscribe? Is this maybe a TERRIBLE MISTAKE you are making?"

I know Boris has a lot of children but surely he's not been *that* busy

Very true. Just an absolute master.

So so good. My mum gave me the CD of him with his arm stuck in the gramophone when I was about 13 and it was *formative*

It's a really terrific app. Great gateway to all things FT!

YouTube video by Fredde21 Tom Lehrer - Oedipus Rex

It says something that, even though he lived to 97, hearing Tom Lehrer has gone makes me think 'much, much too young'. One of the greatest satirists of all time. Here's a niche one, and one of my faves.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScd...

Thank you, that's kind! I think it's easy to bung money at Charge Point operators (and we'll def need a big network of chargers of course) but the (better) domestic solution is newer and more distributed - lacks powerful industry champions - so policy is still catching up! I think it'll get there...

Love this. Hope you enjoy that subscription!

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! Thank you so much Bill. Glad you're enjoying and thrilled you liked B&E too. Great work Todd.

Hahaha oh dear. Well at least that's (arguably) FILM ignorance rather than Anglo-Scottish Beef ignorance... Will set up the inevitable internal inquiry tomorrow.

Me specifically? Oh dear. I bet the podcast inbox will light up....

How magical thinking came for net zero critics Badenoch shows the temptation of just putting all this climate unpleasantness behind us

So good to see the FT finally call out the Conservative Party for its reckless non-sense on climate:

on.ft.com/451lwfr “How magical thinking came for net zero critics”

How magical thinking came for net zero critics Badenoch shows the temptation of just putting all this climate unpleasantness behind us

Must read from @stephenkb.bsky.social on the fundamental flaw in the Tory and Reform non-approach to climate change.
www.ft.com/content/c40f...

Wow! That's incredibly good stuff.

Sorry to be stupid, but presumably this isn't for domestic use? As in, obviously the kerbside unit still needs to connect to somewhere?

BUT - that is very impressive. What a neat solution.

I agree with that! I was trying to say that domestic charging is better *because* it's by far the cheapest and most convenient way to do it.

an adapted version of an existing drainage channel (so there's several decades of experience of fitting those and there is def no maintenance risk in *that* case) but others are newer. Anyway, nice to chat about it!

and it sounds like you have many more lamppost chargers which seem like another very sensible way around the problem when you have cars on street.

Re the maintenance, the firms offering these have different solutions. I think one is...

Hi Max - that is all very reasonable - yes it's def not the answer for everything, mansion blocks, etc. I think the best use case is terraced housing without driveways (assuming the inevitable rows about parking outside your own home can be navigated!) -

1) Depending on your mileage you'd have to park outside your home perhaps once a fortnight. I think this isn't onerous
2) I just think that is a problem that will have to be solved eventually if we want to to unlock the £5 charge. The benefits are much greater than fears of 'privatising kerbside'

Hi - semi-professional gully journalist here! Just FYI I think VAT is a bit of a canard - fast chargers can cost 10-12 times what domestic supply does. Tweaking VAT won't unlock cheap charge. Secondly - I'm not aware of anyone, ever, tripping over one of these inch-wide gullies. They really work.

Hahahaha, that's very funny. Thank you. I do sometimes get a bit irked that Tennis Andy Murray has such a good sense of humour. I mean, pick a lane mate, I don't turn up at the mixed doubles and do YOU out of a job, etc

I have now. Thank you!

NO WAIT BUCKET HATS OFF

Hats off

Bloody hell Oasis have aged

Oh thank you Claire, lovely to hear!

With you shortly, just watching 5 seconds of a product advert so I can skip the rest of the 60-second product advert so I can get through and avert my eyes from the 5-second version of the movie advert so I can finally see the 150-second movie advert I was trying to see in the first place