Digested week: ‘put a jumper on’ is warm-housed people’s answer to energy costs

That the idea of being warm at home has gone from a necessity to a luxury to an extravagance seems slightly a failure of state. Photograph: Jon Challicom/Alamy

Monday

My dog took me for a walk, which ordinarily isn’t news, but you don’t know my dog. He is a four-year-old adopted moron called Bam and he hates walking with me (he does not respect me) and does not like walking in any of our nearby parks (too many incidents to detail here, but in one park he was alarmed by a horse and now we can’t go back).