Energy: a broken system
November 30, 2022 2:08 am Post a CommentJust when I thought it was safe to move away from the energy payment crisis, onto other things (like immigration... View Article
Just when I thought it was safe to move away from the energy payment crisis, onto other things (like immigration... View Article
I really didn’t want to do energy again today, especially the payment crisis which is driving people into debt. It’s... View Article
Months after it became a “thing”, business secretary Grant Shapps has written to suppliers asking them not to hike customers’... View Article
I remember last year spending a lot of time writing about CoP 26, which was in some Scottish town somewhere,... View Article
We turned our central heating on this week, for the first time this winter. It was not so much the... View Article
A number of media commentators are waking up to the “home front” aspect of the war in Ukraine that I... View Article
I sometimes think that this blog has become trapped in its own doom loop. The whole idea of Turbulent Times... View Article
The illiterate chatter over the “Swiss model” has at least achieved one thing. It has reminded us of the profound... View Article
The Sunday Times having launched a spurious report about Britain’s intentions regarding the Swiss option, it is left the paper’s... View Article
Occasionally, I have to remind myself why, in 2004, with the late Helen Szamuely, we started up the EUReferendum blog,... View Article
The Sunday Times is offering a timely article on energy costs, somewhat naïvely headed: “We’re slashing our energy usage, so... View Article
One of the casualties of the media’s tendency to provide saturation coverage of specific events is the coverage of ongoing... View Article
With the assistance of multi-millionaire Jeremy Hunt and his even richer boss, household disposable incomes are expected to fall by... View Article
So, today is the dreaded day, the arrival of the Autumn Statement when Jeremy Hunt is expected to unveil £24... View Article
It is quite typical of a venal media that reports of the new Russian missile assault on Ukraine yesterday should... View Article
Citing the war in Ukraine, the unavailability of part of the nuclear estate, and delays in the renewable energies programme,... View Article