One of those little sadnesses for planners everywhere. Of course governments can try to control prices and they often do so.

There are those for whom the partisan political narrative is all of course.

Yes, of course, it’s wholly correct to have some empathy for those who are to lose their jobs and incomes here.

Ridding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous process and, in the current political era, one that can seem to be in full retreat.

Beauty must be a priority for new council homes to avoid a repeat of the “eyesore” housing estates of the 1960s, a report has said.

We do - no, really, we do - grasp the point of recycling.

As we all know from South Park the Underpants Gnomes work on:

Britain’s biggest oil and gas producer is axing investment in the UK and diverting cash to countries including Norway after Labour’s windfall taxes left it with an 111pc tax rate.

On Thursday, the completion of the $8bn buyout of Paramount by Hollywood minnow Skydance Media marked a seismic shift in the US media landscape.

Britain is now enduring the worst levels of child poverty since modern records began, even worse than in the Thatcher-Major years, and far worse than in most European countries.

Britain’s wealthiest areas will face the biggest council tax rises, experts have predicted.

But the stock exchange isn’t providing enough access to capital, and listed companies aren’t investing to boost growth.