... 179 references to 'energy', and well over 5,000 words. Having now read the full Budget doc, it turns out the seemingly footling ...

In days of yore, our founder CU would have had a lot to say about the Budget.  Any Budget, in fact. But with this one - has anyone got much...

From the day Burnham took office, the green-left has been howling at him not to approve Jackdaw & Rosebank.   This raucous attempt at in...

A bit later than intended: but I said we'd have a post on Badenoch and her £10 bn 'Britannia Shield'.  One should never fall for...

On Monday I called Peak Green and by now, the by-election lost, it looks almost like we're going to see a re-run of Your Party: hundreds...

Six months ago with Starmer still in office, I mused that we'd already seen peak Reform but not yet peak Green.  Since then, the cards h...

We return to a location in Croydon we've visited here before: to a house directly opposite this pair of beauties (of which one remains ...

I can't guess how widely the 7-Up series has a following among the C@W faithful, but in Schloss Drew we've certainly always watched...

Just back from a round trip, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - determined to get there, perhaps for the last time, before Putin does.  It might h...

The other day our friend CH noted BTL (and OT, but let's not worry about that):  ... We can now create virtual Von Neumann machines comp...

[Spoiler alert - contains election result]   The exciting prospect of a Russian election is upon us!  Not the Presidential this time, but th...

 ... it never does. Over the years I've tracked the barometer, nay, the roller-coaster of Polly Toynbee's agonisingly optimistic tak...

Mrs D taps daily into a rich seam of interweb humour, and the absolute avalanche of really funny Harry&Meghan stuff is often side-splitt...

Things are getting quite ugly for Putin - who faces "elections" shortly - and Russia generally.  High on his list of irritants is ...

Well.  Hard to believe, but this blog has been going for 20 years .  Check the listings in the sidebar - there it all is.  5,431 posts - and...

Grommit's garden.  Galleon in background Mrs Drew & I have just visited a truly superb exhibition at Young V&A* in Bethnal Gre...

 ... against fierce local opposition - and in the teeth of, yes, housing as potentially being an alternative use for the site.  It's the...

There's a light mood in  Schloss Drew this weekend.   The Jason Arday affair is possibly even funnier than Keir Starmer 'resigning...

Back in April I mused that we'd perhaps already seen Peak Reform .  Things haven't gone at all well for them since the May local ele...

Being cynical, what it probably means is - more vague feelgood stuff.  But assuming the 'details' we've been given are the bare ...