There's a thing, eh? You'll see it described as " pound collapses" - but against the EUR, Sterling is where it was back i...

 Thar she blows, £3,549.  What now?  Some observations and considerations: Electricity prices[1] are driving gas prices now (in case you did...

On this blog we've all, contributors and commentators alike, recognised from the start that Russia has enormous powers of endurance.  So...

In my experience, the reasons for someone resigning are rarely revealed by the ostensible account.  Sometimes they've actually been fire...

I last wrote at length about the 'Rough' gas storage facility five years ago , and the story is taking another turn; so, once again...

By popular request ... ( BTL here ) One of the few noteworthy outcomes from Cop26 in Glasgow was an international agreement to reduce methan...

Dunno how many of you know who Aaron Bastani is, so we'll start with a brief and hopefully fair pen-picture.  Bastani is highly articula...

Neither Tory leadership candidate really wants to acknowledge what's coming down the line for Xmas.  They'd much prefer to trade upb...

So, hot-foot from the metropolitan political hurlyburly, the sophisticated Drew family block vote of two is in Devon, in a fabulous waterfro...

Writing as a paid-up member of the elite selectorate, I can report on what we found from each of the candidates over the weekend.  Mrs Drew ...

OK, so HMG is hell-bent on Sizewell C, to the extent that they are kissing the Frenchman's arse to get it done .  Since last week's ...

No, not his medical officer (the US seems to be giving him something of a clean bill of health just now, despite the shakes and the dreadful...

So EDF won't (and, by itself, can't: it's bankrupt) take construction risk on nukes any more  (Part 1).  But it needs to parlay...

For well over fifteen years here we've periodically asserted that France has a critical strategic objective of getting other nations, no...

We are no fans of Russian aggression here, but sadly do recognise that Putin is better at Realpolitik than the West. As Russia sells ever mo...

Turns out, Conservative MP’s are mad after all. They want Sunak so much they have put a lemon up against him.  They won’t look so clever whe...

 ... and also the issue of, errr, removing plastics from the ocean. Yes, fortunate we are that the genius who is Terrence Howard is alive at...

So the story is:  the Greek tourism industry is suggesting German pensioners winter in Greece , to save on fuel bills (and indeed bills fo...

 In the aftermath of Boris, where is she? Where is she? Margaret Thatcher famously said, to get her middle of the road right-wing policies t...

From Clive, BTL on yesterday's Boris post, expanding on a short comment he'd been picked up on: Re: " The energy inputs for cre...