Most MPs would struggle to change their own socks. So why would anyone imagine they are going to change the energy system?

Given an undeniable fall in prosperity, western electorates have adopted a broadly similar anti-establishment stance

The problem was that the new generation – born in the years after the war – came to believe and expect that prosperity could only go in one direction.

My concern – even before TSHTF in 2008 – was that modern living was producing more “common mental health problems” despite a lack of will to do anything to prevent them.

Insofar as working people are still wedded to Labour it is the result of some distant folk memory.

It is insane to believe that a country which can neither make nor import steel can also be a world leader in constructing windfarms

While the years 1953 to 1973 had seen both rich and poor enjoy rising prosperity, after 1973 only the rich could prosper.

Sunak embracing gas is evidence of a political class waking up to the impossibility of balancing energy cost, security, and environment.

A large part of the over-50s have simply disappeared from the employment figures entirely , and so can't be coerced.

Cutting National Insurance turns us from contributing citizens into mere neo-feudal peasants who live or die at our overlords’ whim.