An army of zombies looks set to destroy the Eurozone and nobody knows how to stop them! Okay, these aren’t the kind of flesh-eating zombies that featured in the Night of the Living Dead.  Rather, they are the army of walking-dead companies and banks that are slowly destroying the Eurozone …

In the course of two weeks, we have seen more international agreement and action on climate change than ever before.  On 4 October Canada introduced a carbon tax, setting a standard for other nations to follow.  On the same day the Paris climate agreement came into effect.  Two days later, …

Potential investors in UK fracking were recently advised that IGas Energy plc has a staggering 11 trillion cubic feet of recoverable UK shale gas within its portfolio.  The claim comes after an assessment by “independent” consultants DeGolyer & MacNaughton, which claims that there is a total of 102 trillion cubic …

The promise of a cashless society was meant to be about the triumph of technology.  It signalled an age in which we no longer needed the notes and coins – or even the cheques – that had been the backbone of the economy for several centuries.  In their place, we …

National Grid has managed to increase the projected margin between energy supply and demand to 6.6 percent for the winter of 2016/17.  This has been achieved by spending more than £140m on additional back-up diesel generators together with extending the operating life of the Eggborough coal power plant in North …

The number of oil spills from North Sea rigs has reached a 14 year high according to a report by Neil MacKay at Herald Scotland: “The revelation comes in the wake of a major spillage last weekend from oil giant BP’s Clair rig off Shetland. It has prompted fierce criticisms …

China’s Finance Minister Lou Jiwei, speaking on behalf of the G20, has identified “voter-luring populism” as one of the largest threats to the economy. Without mentioning Donald Trump or Brexit directly, it is clear that Jiwei had these and other right-wing populist trends in the developed world in mind.  The …

Think of the gig economy, and you probably think of web-based companies like Airbnb, Deliveroo or Uber.  But these are just the visible tip of a much larger gig economy iceberg that includes everything from full-time professional roles to extremely precarious short-term and low paid gigs found on sites like …

A new age had dawned.  Big bang had just happened.  A confident and youthful financial sector was poised to lead the UK economy out of the depression of the 1970s and early 1980s.  But there was a problem.  The commanding heights of the economy were still in the dead hands …

According to government energy statistics for May to July 2016, just 5.3 percent of the UK’s electricity was generated from coal.  According to the government, this is a record low, meaning that generation from solar is now greater than from coal. Unfortunately, at 17.4 percent, renewable energy was down – …