by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 2, 2026 | Home & Garden
Basis: Ofgem price cap for 1 October to 31 December 2026, electricity 26.32p per kWh including VAT relief, direct debit. Until 30 September 2026 the capped rate is 26.11p, so every electricity figure below sits about 0.8 per cent above what you pay this month....
by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 2, 2026 | Home & Garden, Trending
Key takeaways In England the carbon monoxide alarm duty sits with landlords. GOV.UK guidance says plainly that the regulations do not apply to owner occupiers. Scotland is different. Every home with a boiler, open fire, flue or non-electric heater must have a CO...
by Jacob Whitmore | Aug 30, 2026 | Sports & Outdoors, Trending
Every insulated bottle is sold on a number. Twenty-four hours cold. Two days iced. Twelve hours hot. This audit asks a simpler question than which number is biggest: what does any of them actually mean? The finding: we read the insulation claim on five major brands at...
by Jacob Whitmore | Aug 30, 2026 | Home & Garden, Trending
Home security is sold the wrong way round. The expensive, heavily marketed products watch a burglary happen. The cheap, dull ones try to stop it. This index prices the second group against the first, using government data on how burglars actually get into British...
by Jacob Whitmore | Aug 30, 2026 | Beauty & Grooming, Trending
At-home beauty devices are sold on a simple promise: buy once, stop paying the salon. This index tests that promise with arithmetic. It takes every device we have reviewed, prices it on one day, and divides by a fixed number of sessions, so the cost of an actual...
