It's all shit.

From The Daily Mail:

Tap water in Syrian city under ISIS control is an undrinkable brown sludge filled with worms after Islamic State engineer in charge of the water plant steals its funds and goes on the run

Somebody pointed out ages ago that all this jihadi stuff is great fun for a while but the novelty wears off, and until and unless ISIS are actually capable of organising the day-to-day stuff like clean tap water, refuse collection, electricity supplies, medical care and all the other trappings of a civilised country which most Syrians or Iraqis (or Westerners) are used to, then they will just fade away again and be yet another bandit/terrorist group holed up in the proverbial mountains.

Say about Assad or Saddam what you like, they were reasonably good at the day-to-day stuff; ISIS clearly are not, so there's hope for us yet.

Headline on Planet Zog: Tenants not affected by increases in fuel bills

Headline in Daily Mail: Homeowners struggle with higher fuel bills as greedy firms hike prices.

In a strange sort of way, they'd be correct of course, because higher fuel bills tend to depress rents, so as a tenant you are to some extent insured against this, but hey. I assume that this level of economic analysis is beyond them.

"Tories plan energy discount card"

Hmm.

One of the bright ideas in my Bow Group tax and welfare simplification report was that all benefits would be paid into bank accounts and banks would have to allow welfare claimants and pensioners to open basic bank accounts (on pain of losing their banking licence).

This would enable such people to pay their utilities by Direct Debit (you can have weekly or even daily Direct Debits, apparently) timed to leave the account the same day that their money goes in. That helps them save 15% or so on their utility bills.

Just sayin', is all.