Fuel "cap"

 The fuel price cap isn't really a cap, is it? It's a target. Or a tracker. 

I have no idea what the point of Ofgem is. 

I expect they're getting that a lot. 

Finished: All my mother's lovers - Hana Masad

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Sandi oh Sandi

 Reading Sandi Toksvig's open letter to the Arch-Bish, I felt the beginnings of tears in my eyes. I mean, I cry at the drop of the hat, but it's so disheartening that the Church feels the need to come out with this stuff. 

I mean, we all know that's what they believe, don't we? Love the sinners, hate the sin, isn't it? The fact that the Church shifts to be more liberal and inclusive in many ways doesn't change those fundamentals. You can want to be accepted and these days the Church will go some way to envelop you in its squishy folds, but somewhere in there, is the solid wall of an old book with a long convention of understanding of its stories, telling you the way you love is wrong, if you're gay.   

I like when the Church stands up for things I agree with, of course, like when they spoke out against the "I know, let's send asylum seekers to Rwanda, that'll give our racist fuck-face core voters full-on robot chubbies for us" policy. 

So maybe I'm a hypocrite. Talk about what I want you to talk about, dammit!

Sorry about the multiple, somewhat mismatched grabs of her letter, it offends my sensibilities too, but it's close enough and I'm not so anal I can be bothered to work out perfect matching this sunny Sunday morning. I'm just trying to avoid linking to Twatter, as it is not a pleasing place to visit for me. Both depressing and enraging, and a massive time-suck if I go into that rabbit-hole. Stay out! Stay out!

Shrill

 

Finished: Shrill - Lindy West 

Tell me why we don't need feminism anymore, again?

Link to Guardian article: For every £1 fetched by a male artist’s work, one by a woman gets a mere 10p – and its value plummets further if she signs it. The creator of Recalculating Art, a shocking new radio exposé, reveals her findings

"Let’s get back to quality. Could it be that men are simply better artists? Oxford professor of finance Renée Adams decided to put the idea to the test. She showed participants five paintings by men and five by women and asked them to identify the gender of the artist. They guessed right 50% of the time – no better than tossing a coin. This is pretty good evidence that art by men is no different from, and thus no better than, art by women.

Then she showed a sample of affluent men who visit galleries – the classic profile of an art collector – a painting created by AI, and randomly assigned it either a male or female artist’s name. If the collectors were told it was painted by a man they said they liked it more than if they were told it was painted by a woman. As she puts it: “The same artist, the same painting.”

It's funny what gaps there are - well, not funny - infuriating, depressing, mindboggling.. 

I heard on the radio news that the women's football team are pushing for girls to have more opportunities to play football at school, and remember it wasn't an option for me at my school, nor I think at my daughter's. 

Yay, the women for winning the Euros, btw.