Energy
Oh God, don’t let the Pope be a climate fanatic
In his latest encyclical Pope Francis will apparently describe global warming as a ‘major threat to life on the planet’.…
Shifting sands in Saudi
Why America’s once-cautious ally suddenly looks so skittish
Diary
Martin Williams, former head of the government’s air quality science unit, has declared that the reason we have a problem…
Investment: Pump it up
The ins and outs of betting on an oil price bounce
Barometer
Teen queens The Duke of York denied allegations in court papers that he had had sexual relations with a girl…
Italy takes the stress-test booby prize as the old Spanish fox emerges the winner
Continuing last week’s theme, it was the Italian banks — with nine fails, four still requiring capital injections — that…
That sinking feeling
Civil servants think wave power will transform the country. They’re wrong. You’re paying
This oil price rise is a blip, not a spike – but it’s still a timely reminder to get fracking
‘Iraq turmoil sends crude oil prices to nine-month high’ is the sort of headline that used to send shivers down…
Gone with the wind turbine
City skylines are protected from careless building. Why should country views be different?
Let them eat carbon credits
How green policies hit the poorest hardest
A reminder of the UK energy gap as Putin prepares to put another knot in his pipeline
To have written last month that the headline ‘Kiev in flames’ looked like a black swan on the economic horizon…
Nuclear fallout
Britain is about to buy the world’s most expensive power station
Investment: Love for shale
Here’s how to get a slice of the fracking action
Cameron’s gifts
He’d like to present you with single-party government and lower tax rates, among other things
The real energy scandal
Politicians, not the Big Six, have jacked up the price of power. And they’re only just getting started
The next election will break all the rules
Ed Miliband’s aides used to scurry around the parliamentary estate, their shoulders hunched. A look in their eyes suggested that…
Not so much a property bubble, more an opportunity to improve London’s transport
Everyone —including me, if I’m honest — has been talking about a new property bubble. But is it for real?…
Meet the real scourge of the English countryside
I’m off to Balcombe this weekend. In fact I might even carry a placard and paint my face with a…
Fracking
‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a frack,’ replied my husband unwittily when I asked how he’d feel if shale…
