What we learned this week

A climate justice angle we don’t hear very much about – the Phoenix newsletter looks at climate and the caste system in South Asia,

Britain’s big housebuilders continue to erect whole estates of new homes all fitted with gas boilers. So it’s worth noting that one of them, Redrow, announced this week that they are going to fit heat pumps and underfloor heating as standard from now on.

That’s important in normalising heat pumps, which in some circles are still considered new, unproven, and o...