Energy policy needs powering up
MATT KERR laments that, in keeping with its predecessors, the government is unwilling to countenance public ownership and control of Britain’s energy, leaving promises of a ‘just transition’ with no mechanism to deliver
The welcome news that Cuba has finally been removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list is tempered by the fact that Donald Trump, the man who put it there, is returning to the White House, warns NATASHA HICKMAN
Thanks to impressive progress in Britain with wind and solar generation, clean electricity now costs a fraction of the price of gas — yet the current system keeps bills artificially high to protect fossil fuels, writes TOM HARDY
By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Many Western countries are grappling with deep political instability. What are the causes of this, and what could be a possible way forward? asks MARC VANDEPITTE
KEITH BENNETT explains why, despite its present meagre economic outcomes, an honest and fruitful partnership with China is worth pursuing
Nick Wright talks to photographer and author JANINA STRUK
ENERGY security has made a comeback, but sadly not the willingness to actually deliver it.
The concept is of course not exactly an earth-shattering idea, I remember shamelessly pilfering the NUM line on energy security arguing to keep pits open with pals at school in the early ’90s.
By then British Gas, BP and BritOil has all been flogged off for a song by Thatcher’s government, though even as she scrapped the British national Oil Corporation and she understood the need to hang on to a “Golden Share” in BritOil, until the miracle of the market saw oil prices plummet, at least.
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