While “oil” production has bounced back from the lockdown slump, diesel production is still lagging below the 2018 peak
Read More »The world ended in 1999
What we are observing is the decay of democracy into its evil twin… technocracy.
Read More »The problem squared
Given the extent to which we have electrified our way of life, this should terrify everyone...
Read More »The two horsemen of the net zero apocalypse
The reason UK industrial electricity prices are the highest in the world is a simple combination of physics and neoliberal policy.
Read More »Okay Boomer…
There are many reasons for the slow death of pub culture in the UK, but government is among the biggest.
Read More »Who will be our Mussolini?
In the UK a change of government has proved to be no change in government at all
Read More »That’s a mighty big assumption you’re making
We are now reaping the consequences of decisions made half a century ago
Read More »Two-part headline: always wrong!
It is not enough to report economic data… to demonstrate authority, a reporter must offer a plausible cause.
Read More »Neo-iconoclasm
There is a more disturbing historical parallel... not Germany in the 1930s, but Britain in the 1630s.
Read More »Economic chemotherapy
Our predicament is not dissimilar to that of a cancer patient... There is no good alternative.
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