Devutopia

Not great. The UK gas price has gone up another 40% this morning… the per thermal price is now 150p… which does get to the sustained painful levels though not the actual peak seen in Russia- Ukraine crisis. For reference the OBR assumption at the moment likely to be confirmed today is just 75p. If sustained, a big if, Julys energy price cap would be problematic.

🚨 THIS IS INSANE! TSA security wait time at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport reached over 90 minutes Thursday morning.

This is unsustainable. The average rent in London is £2,736, £32,832 a year. So someone needs to earn c.£40,720 just to cover rent alone. The average annual salary in London is c.£47,455 (ONS data). So net that leaves c.£4K to cover everything else! We badly need the rent controls the Greens are proposing.

What is the point of keeping water privatised? This was the question Labour MP Barry Gardiner put to Emma Reynolds, the secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs. However, when Reynolds said nationalising water would "cost an enormous amount of money", she was quizzed on where her figures were coming from. According to Gardiner, the Labour government has simply refused to do the maths.