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A New Meaning for Central Heating

Your home will remain warm whenever Whitehall considers it nationally responsible

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Jul 21, 2026
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Editor’s note: We asked T.W. for a few words on the British Government’s latest central-heating scheme. He replied with a forecast of collectivist authoritarianism in which smart kettles punish wrong…

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