horsemouth has truncated it, liking the blake-ish proverbs of hell feel about it.
also from herling there's an elias canetti quote horsemouth lifted, an appreciation of filippo maria the duke of milan and last of the viscontis.
'he acted as if he had to safeguard his secrets even from himself.'
horsemouth has been in this state a number of times (while trying to balance diverging expectations upon himself). it has nearly got him into a lot of trouble.
yesterday in the morning horsemouth wandered down to oxfam books (st.james' street) - someone there has clearly been on the internet and priced their selection of michel foucault books accordingly (online they would sell for that price, hidden in walthamstow they will not) , there's a tanglewood discovery acoustic-electric for 50 squid (needs restringing). it's in the window so horsemouth can't get closer to tell you anything more about it - it kind of looks like this.
horsemouth had one good musical idea yesterday - it was to work up an as if 'simultaneous translation' of un valse melodie (a song about the difficulty of writing lyrics and pity the poor poet) perhaps horsemouth could write some lyrics along the lines of pity the poor translator..
later he went walking in the woods wandered back out along the ring road to south woodford and tried a few more charity shops - the only thing that tempted him was a book on the history of washington dc (maybe another time).
finally his anxiety drove him out of doors and down to the hollow ponds. horsemouth tends to walk to assuage his anxiety (and to help gather his thoughts). he is a pacer (this upsets the cats because they think he's going into the kitchen to get them more food. beset by importuning cats horsemouth gets more anxious.).
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what was horsemouth feeling anxious about? well communal endeavour stuff really.
horsemouth has been loudly asserting that the government's insulation deadline for social housing (get your social housing up to EPC C deadline is 'in law'). someone has 'is it?'ed him causing him some doubt and perplexity.
here goes (the state of horsemouth's researches so far)
at COP 22 alok sharma gets on the mic and busts some stirring lyrics about net zero by 2050 (net zero carbon emissions from the UK economy by 2050). this is (the climate scientists tell us) too late anyway. and no-one believes him really anyway.
this net zero target is made legally binding by the climate change act of 2008 and in particular by the 2050 target amendment order of 2019.
to meet this target the government set out the clean growth strategy with a plan to consult both private rented sectors and the social housing sector. for the private rented sector the aim is to pass a law in 2025 requiring all new lets to have an EPC certificate of C at least by 2028. for the social housing sector no new legislation is required because the sector is already regulated by the government (examples of this regulation include limits on maximum permitted rent rises, requirements to submit audited accounts to the regulators and to fill in various other returns).
it all comes down to your sources of law - very little law actually derives from acts of parliament, much is case law and much is government orders.
so it all comes down (ultimately) to the government announcement of this in december 2022.
horsemouth curses himself for a fool for worrying about this stuff. he has a meeting to prepare for on social housing decarbonisation and stuff he should be reading for that.
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(meanwhile) private landlords and tory MPs (that set of sets) made anxious by the likely costs of improving their properties up to EPC C standard have remembered that the requirement to get EPC certificates (housing act 2004) derives from EU law. they are now arguing there should be a british certificate for this (with a union jack on it and a blue cover) in an attempt to force all these dates back. (climate crisis be damned).
gove has said it's not a hill he fancies dying on so the EPC certificate (the basis of all of this) is probably toast.
as are we all if this goes on.
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