BTL on the last thread, Clive triggered some comments with: Renewables are rocking da house. And negative prices! So, while hydrocarbons wil...

 Why do I write this you ask?  Well if you recall the crazy days of 2016 there were 4 very strong Brexiteers. Farage, Boris and Gove with gu...

 Om my how much Covid-19 changed the world. For five years, the UK national conversation was nothing but the screeches of Brexit from all si...

Auberon Waugh once wrote of Rupert Murdoch:  for crushing the print unions, Murdoch deserves a dukedom.  For everything else - one of the le...

There are those Remainers like Grayson Perry who after 2016 acquired a modicum of reflective humility about how little they probably represe...

I should really save this for next week, but I can't resist being a little Happy on a Christmas Eve. In the space of December we havd or...

Seriously: this is one of our great competitive strengths.   2020 has not been a year of pride for this Brit.  Although it started well with...

Here we are again, another round of latre night, over the weekend, Pret-eating, high stress negotiations. You would have thought we had beco...

What is going to happen when the wave of local authority bankruptcies hits?   ... as, in the coming months, must surely be highly likely.  ...

One of the many great things about Enron, long before it went under, was that it brought really strong financial practices into the energy i...

Can I strongly recommend watching Boris' Greenwich speech ?  For a politician, it's truly excellent: he really does have the makings...

So, I never thought I would really write this post. The UK is leaving the EU tonight! After all the drama since 2016 I had long predicted ...

The end of our EU membership is upon us and the sangfroid from watching the dying embers of remoanerism try and block an EU exit celebration...

To the utter disgust of some of the purist BTLers on Mr Raedwald's fine blog, Farage has made his move.  An entirely logical move, and a...

Many years ago, what I thought I knew about a tsunami was that it was a monstrous wave; a wall of water tens of feet high which smashed down...

So, another meh week ahead. Johnson won't get his election today. The EU will extend until 31st Jan. Nothing will really happen, j...

Apologies for my dereliction of blogging duties recently - have been abroad.  Sort of hoping, faintly, for a Brexit result whilst I was away...

I really don't get the current Boris Strategy. My only explanation is he has been got at by the civil service who have outlined just how...

" The wellspring of Tory electoral confidence is Jeremy Corbyn... voters sense that the opposition is crawling with cranks and bullies...

So, Dominic Cummings has decided to try and game the coming General Election by releasing a statement to The Spectator . it is very rare I ...