Burn After Reading

Conservative expenses claimants, including one former Dear Leader whose charisma and competence rivalled those of the present incumbent, are risking relegation to the anti-growth coalition by urging the creation of a nanny leaflet state. After more than a decade of hard work giving the little people their choice between heating and eating, the Government is understandably reluctant to launch a public campaign featuring, of all things, factual information. In any case, it's difficult to imagine what facts might be offered that would effectively supplement the eminently pragmatic recommendations implicit in the energy bills. Rather than simply sitting in the dark, the world's worst idlers might possibly be encouraged to jump up and down a bit more; but as regards such economising measures as avoiding excess warmth beyond a healthy incandescent rage at the fiend Putin, and keeping the children off those dangerously addictive cooked meals, it seems unclear that further progress can practicably be made.