Fireworks night coming, and £125 million is all the Budget can muster for GB Energy in '25-26.  What a pathetic little squib.  £100m for...

Russia has just suspended LNG exports from its Arctic LNG 2 gas terminal - indeed, it's suspended liquefaction.  Not a helpful state of ...

For the first time, Shostakovich has entered the Classic FM 'Hall of Fame' top ten with the Piano Concerto no.2, in at number 9 in...

Start with Ukraine.  Zelenski's 'Victory Pan' of earlier this month is so off-beam, it simply serves to illustrate the impossi...

Does it matter?  Possibly not.  But the election for the next Chancellor at Oxford is seriously bringing the game into disrepute. Back in th...

The Drax farce has dragged on for a very long time (several threads here ), but there are signs that it might be reaching a crisis point. ...

I think we all know the basic history of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power project here: initially talked of by EDF as being absolutely nece...

All together now:  Oh, the old Gray mare, she ain't what she used to be, Ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be, T...

Well, right in the essentials (here)  if not on some details, and of course his overall red-green framing. Our George is a funny fellow, oft...

We haven't had any doggerel for a bit** ...   [with apologies to Louis Armstrong ] Oh the spads, babe, have such teeth, dear  and they l...

We told you so ! *  *  *  *  * Scene :  a poncey coffee bar in a hotel off Northumberland Avenue.  Slumped in a chair, semi-comatose and wit...

To round off our erudite session on flywheels: BTL on the previous post, one of our anons offered us this little Irish video for our edifica...

The challenges posed to any electricity grid by ever more intermittent sources of power in the fleet are well known.  The UK grid (and other...

Q:   Does Labour - the party of, errr, labour - have an industrial policy?  Or an employment policy? A:   Yes!  It's the "Just Tra...

So the story goes, that the Liz Truss meltdown at the back end of 2022 convinced the world and his dog that Labour was nailed on to be the n...

We've come by a transcript of the half-year performance review of a 30-something Labour Party SPAD. *   *   *   *   * Supervisor (Senior...

At the polar-opposite ends of the 'net zero' policy debate are two fatuous positions we may caricature thus: A.  renewable energy is...

The Premier League's case against Man City is now being heard.  Should a free-marketeer care about what private football clubs do with t...

This past week has seen publication of Starmer's popularity ratings that, by comparison with the (downward) trajectories of the ratings ...

Today we've seen two things that strongly suggest to me that Starmer & his strategists aren't just hanging tough on controversia...