TThe days of working from home in pajamas are mostly gone, but I’m writing this article in my living room, dressed only in boxer shorts and a T-shirt. Why? Because I can. My heating is on. The government is kindly paying my gas bills this winter. In fact, I do more – I make a profit. So it’s like a Finnish sauna here in Kilburn. We might even start whipping each other with birch branches, just like that.
In September, when the headlines were predicting a gas apocalypse, Liz Truss announced an unprecedented subsidy to pay household electricity bills. Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has sent gas prices skyrocketing, with only the government standing between us and a return to darkness.
