I don’t get why they are all cosplaying a seedy man from the 70s.

I seem to store all the cables I never need on a hanging wall.
And all the cables I need constantly at the bottom of a bag-for-life in the shed.

I did a similar journey. Half of the union flags were upside down.
Maybe that’s why St George’s is so popular? Nobody knows if you do it wrong.

The answer is, you have to buy a Proper ™️ one.

With active cooling, a power supply, and proper Lightning etc. support.

I buy Dell WD19TB units second hand from CeX for about £60. New, they cost several hundred.
Even then, they have issues (fans staying on, and a STUPID bug where turning off the machine causes power-off packets to spam the network).
But for general work, they’re very reliable.

Crap idea? Check.
Unpopular with everyone? Check.
Lumbered on the current government by the previous, so hard to reverse quickly? Check.
The conservatives (and Labour’s lack of action) just handed reform a beautiful less-racist onramp.

“Tonight, I attempt to access some pornography.”
3 minute shot of Clarkson angling a camera at his visibly fed-up face

What, no free string vest?

Doing a few things well, rather than microwaving everything Sysco can load into the freezer would be nice too.

One of my locals does chips, and hotdogs, in an air fryer. That’s it. But they’re amazing chips and hotdogs.

I get dragonflies, but not frogs.

In seriousness, I have just try to spot when I’ve left something in the garden that gathered water, to stop mozzies.
One day, I might try doing a pond, and managing it properly.

And there was me thinking I’d just done a good job controlling water sources in the garden…

If you don’t already, wear breathable pyjamas, and cotton bedsheet/duvet cover. And ideally, a non-synthetic duvet.
This will at least reduce the liquid sweat, by allowing it to evaporate better.

Keeping track on when it’s hot/not/rainy can help get the house temperature under control.
When it gets cooler at night, you can open the windows to cool the fabric of the house down.
Then close everything up first thing in the morning, including south facing curtains.
The cooler you can get the house overnight, the more heat it can absorb the next day.

So here, I left the window open on one room, (red) and closed on another (dark blue and teal).
When the outside temperature (purple) dropped to 15 overnight, it dragged the orange room down significantly.
(Then I forgot to close the window in the morning, so it kinda got negated 😬)

Other than that, a dehumidifier may help if feeling less muggy, though it will raise the temperature of the room overall slightly, since it’s going to use energy to run.
Externally run aircon is, unfortunately, the only real step beyond that. And it’s a bit of a chunk of change (£500 for a basic DIY one, £1500+ for one room professionally).

The important thing is, they’re using SMRs.
Megaprojects can go off the rails of time/budget because people try to make them special, bespoke, unique.
“Nothing like this has ever been done before!” When really, you want your project to be like lego: Lots of standard parts (or at least, mass-produced for your project) that connect together to make a larger whole.
SMRs mean more common parts, and more modular building. Build the first, build the second faster, learn from mistakes, etc.

Carrots and sticks.
The carrots society expects are under-provided, so removal can’t be used as a persuader.
So we end up spending money on more sticks.

Why does it feel like every UK govt.'s response to any struggling public good is “Well, there is a nice man here offering to buy it, and we don’t want to spend any money, so he’s going to have it”.

Sounds like an unviable business that is throwing worse loans after bad, and needs nationalising a decade ago.
But what do I know: I’m just a schmuck who’s water bill just went up by a third.