Economic freefall Just how bad is Britain’s current economic collapse? One indicator can be found in the monthly registration of new vehicles, which are generally higher in September and March when new registration plates are introduced. Nevertheless, total registrations were down 14.3 percent on this time last year – when …
Read More »In Brief: Enemies of the people
Cui bono? At face value, Rishi Sunak’s £350 handout to help with rising energy bills is a lot better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. The devil, of course, is in the detail. Only £150 is coming in April, when the average energy bill will increase …
Read More »In Brief: Double distraction, The damage done, The future of green subsidies, The volatility problem
Double distraction The important – but unmentioned – fact about UK Prime Minister Johnson’s current woes is that they are apolitical. Johnson’s – and the Tories – collapse in the polls is solely the result of a breech of trust which might just as easily have been the result of …
Read More »In Brief: Greenwash peals, Peak oil demand of a kind, Real inflation, Which came first? Behind the jobs figures
When the greenwash peels Among the biggest confidence tricks used by the Green New Great Reset crowd was the sale of “renewable electricity” to the virtue signalling middle classes. The con ought to have been easy enough to debunk. After all, there is only the one wire which connects your …
Read More »In Brief: Insensitive for other reasons; Johnson in trouble; Currency shock ahead
OVO error of judgement Energy company OVO has come in for criticism after advising people to cuddle up to their pets to keep warm this winter. One of the reasons people began to keep animals indoors in the first place was precisely because they could be used in the same …
Read More »In Brief: What we can expect in 2022
The year 2022 is the setting for the dystopian movie Soylent Green – in which an over-populated, climate ravaged population is only sustained by consuming the nutrients from rendered and processed human corpses. Two years ago, we might have shaken our heads at just how wrong the film’s director Richard …
Read More »In Brief: Fracking back, new weather warnings, lockdown by any other name
Fracking back Anti-fracking campaigners like to flatter themselves by claiming that it was their protests which finally brought UK fracking to an end. The reality though, is that the price at which UK shale gas might be recovered was far higher than the prevailing price of gas from the North …
Read More »In Brief: Supply crisis illustrated, Economic downturn ahead, Tory splits, What if…
Supply crisis illustrated When you have spent three decades creating hyper-efficient, just-in-time supply chains, you mess with them at your peril. This is because they are also hyper-fragile, so that when backlogs occur, the result is a systemic failure rather than a single short-term blockage. Not only do you have …
Read More »In Brief: Cambo crunch, Blue wall blues, Economic headwinds, And then all the chairs were facing backward
Cambo crunch Shell’s decision to pull out of the project to drill the Cambo oil field has ramifications that the establishment media refuses even to acknowledge. The fact that Big Oil was even prepared to consider opening up Cambo is a measure of how desperate things have become. The field …
Read More »In Brief: depression overload, mitigation (2), more safety traded for peace of mind, nationalisation in all but name
Untreatable depression Mental health has been a tacitly accepted casualty of the pandemic restrictions and lockdowns. In addition to the anxiety in response to the virus itself, the threat to people’s livelihoods and the prolonged periods of social isolation – including the “social distancing” in previously intimate gatherings – have …
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