This week’s Britblog Roundup is hosted by Matt Wardman.

Will we accept household electricity bills of £5000 per year? No.

And a link to a gushy piece about a new economic model, which seems to mean stifling innovation to get the wonders of a ‘steady-state economy’:

For example: if you hear someone proclaiming an innovation as great for productivity, ask questions (and if it means workers won’t spend 10 hours a day breaking rocks, great, but if it means a machine replaces a person doing a decent, proper job, ask why? then ask again).

What?

Where do you think the ‘machine’ came from? It came from other people doing decent proper jobs in inventing it and all the parts and thought that created it.

And the chances are that that machine is doing the tedious bits of a job, opening the way to allowing a human to have more time to focus on the less boring bits.

Much better to have all those people in wearying domestic service?