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Environmental nudge | A mad world | The B-word | Abstract artists | Pushing AIRather than wasting time and money on “nudge units” to boost the take-up of heat pumps (Report, 1 January), the government just needs to order housebuilders to install them at the time of construction (ditto solar panels) – gaining cost benefits from economies of scale too. Sadly, MPs don’t seem to have any guts.Norman Miller
Brighton, East Sussex• Re the existential threat of nuclear war (

Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a water-integrated docking system to autonomously manage both clean and dirty water for you. It’s a pretty clever solution, and we appreciated that SwitchBot was willing to try something a little different. At CES this week, SwitchBot introduced the K20+ Pro, a little autonomous vacuum that can integrate with a bunch of different accessories by pulling them around on a backpack cart of sorts. The

The main issues confronting policymakers around the world seem particularly portentous this new yearJanuary is always a time for new beginnings and fresh thinking. But with Donald Trump heading for the White House and a new(ish) Labour government in charge of a faltering UK economy, the onset of 2025 seems especially portentous.Forecasting is a mug’s game, as former Bank of England governor Mervyn King used to say about predicting exchange rates; but here are some of the big economic quest