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Mr and Mrs Watts installed a heat pump in 2008. But it's now approaching the end of its life and the replacement cost is £17k, £10k more than they paid for the original. It's a salutary lesson, says Sallust.

A trainee schoolteacher who failed her probationary period unsuccessfully sued her school because her mentor had imitated a Caribbean accent when quoting the old Lilt drink ad: "Totally tropical taste."

Defective heat pumps will be fitted in new homes under Net Zero plans, the Government has been warned, after it emerged that installations in new builds are unregulated and can be installed by any cowboy.

An interview on Radio 4 this week laid bare Ed Miliband's fantasy thinking on Net Zero. As Amol Rajan pressed the deluded Energy Secretary on how his claims are the opposite of reality, he simply dug in.

An Australian energy safety regulator has switched off five solar farms due to concerns over bushfire risks caused by uncontrolled vegetation. And with China's domination of the market that's not the only worry.

Colin Ferguson spent thousands renovating his home back in 2013 and received a perfect energy rating for his trouble. When he recently installed a heat pump, however, his EPC rating dropped off a cliff.

Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust and woke academics are "decolonising" the Bard by downplaying his genius, linking his legacy to white supremacy and scrubbing "offensive" language from its collections.

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in Brazil. You can't make this stuff up.

Ed Miliband has refused to calculate the cost of Net Zero, but former Professor of Economics Gordon Hughes has done it for him and the sums are eye-watering. "It’s a gas grid plus a bigger green energy one. Not cheap."

The UK's Net Zero agenda is making families poorer by driving a productivity crisis and squeezing living standards, economists have said. You'd have thought this was obvious, but a great many people are still in denial.

Australia is watching our "unmanaged decline" with a mix of dismay and pity, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph. It seems Britain's decline isn't just obvious at home – it's blindingly clear from 11,000 miles away.

The Imperial War Museum is consigning Lord Ashcroft's collection of 230 Victoria and George Cross medals to gather dust in a vault. A society that does not value collections like these reveals its true nature.