If this was happening in isolation, we might talk about solutions. But the UK is entering an everything death spiral from which there is no coming back.

The end achievement of the COP conferences may well turn out to be lowering public support for addressing climate change.

This was – and is – the fundamental flaw in neoliberalism, and we are about to witness it bringing the house down.

London is displaying all of the symptoms of decline which were so obvious in places like Blackpool a generation ago.

For two years we have been spending more to buy less, but in the last couple of months we have switched to buying less and spending less.

Let us not forget that beyond hard-pressed bill-payers are thousands more who can no longer afford electricity at all

You can’t have an energy transition without the steel to supply the wind turbine factories.

Denial is the widespread political response among those who are still warm enough and fed enough to participate.

But by the end of 2018, all oil production was in decline. Even without the lockdowns, we would have had a recession...

Just like Foreman, the western states – and the US neocons in particular – have overestimated their economic and military strength...