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In a healthy, competitive market, prices go down when costs go down. Not in the energy market. As Ofgem announced this week, the wholesale cost of gas and electricity has dropped by more than a third since this time last year, but our bills have increased. Wholesale power is the cheapest it’s been since 2010,
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‘Oh no! He’s been radicalised to go and in-fight with the Conservatives.’
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‘Hello, reception. Can you send up more mosquito repellent, please.’
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‘The indoor climbing centre didn’t really flourish until after it was demolished.’
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‘I was hoping to be able to introduce you to Colin, head of Covert Operations.’
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‘Omigod! You’ve made me look so fat!’
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‘This is where the most awful things happen.’
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‘I can’t wait to see what nickname they give our new building.’
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‘Online home delivery? About those sponge fingers I ordered…’
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‘I’m a World Cup widow — my husband said England wouldn’t win, so I stabbed him.’
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‘They’re “W”, “M” and “D”.’
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A history of persecution Sir: Colin Brown (Letters, 7 June) ignores some good reasons for keeping religion out of society. Small groups of believers are fine, but not totalitarian dictatorships. The early Christians were treated as heretics until 313 ad, when Constantine made what became the Roman Catholic Church the official religion of the Roman
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Old world Brazil has struggled to get ready for the World Cup, even though it hosted it before, in 1950. Some oddities of that tournament: — There was no final, as such. The winner was to be decided by a second group stage. But it came down to the last match, Brazil vs Uruguay, in
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Home After an Ofsted inspection of 21 schools in Birmingham (none of them faith schools), against the background of allegations of attempts of a Muslim takeover in a so-called Operation Trojan Horse, David Cameron, the Prime Minister, joined Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, in seizing upon an observation by Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief