Hi Robert, said the email from my energy company. Just to let you know, your fixed-rate tariff is ending, so your energy bill is going to double. Actually, more than double. Have a nice day! When I vented on Twitter, I was swamped by similar horror stories. Families across the country, many already struggling to cope, will have to pay vastly more — in some cases many multiples of their previous bills — to keep themselves warm. And those bills were calculated before Vladimir Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine sent gas and petrol prices spiralling even higher.
The scale of the increases has led many people to curse the government. But, remarkably, they do not reflect the full horror of what is happening in
