Energy
How Pret ate itself
How bad would it be if Royal Mail’s parent company, International Distributions Services (IDS), were to be taken over by…
The farce of Drax’s wood pellets
When is the government going to stop pretending that chopping down trees in North American forests and shipping them across…
A house-price crash won’t be the only effect of the Kwarteng calamity
Where next for house prices? Clearly, they’re going down as mortgage rates go up – and my forecast in May…
Portrait of the week: Tory party conference, gas supply warning and Denmark’s royals stripped of titles
Home Liz Truss, the Prime Minister, came up with a message for the Conservative party conference: ‘Whenever there is change,…
How to stop a blackout
Will the lights go out this winter? A letter from the energy regulator Ofgem reveals just how seriously it is taking…
Europe’s descent into deindustrialisation
The rapid economic collapse that Britain is facing is simply an accelerated version of what the whole of Europe is…
Did Russia sabotage its own pipelines?
It almost seems worthy of the opening scene in a Bond film. Vital Russian gas pipelines running beneath the Baltic Sea close…
The problem with nationalising energy
Is nationalisation the vote-winner which Keir Starmer believes it to be? We will find out in due course, but my…
Is this really the moment to scrap bankers’ bonuses?
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng – keen to sharpen the City’s competitive edge, we’re told – wants to remove the legislative cap,…
