The Tories announced the scrapping of two major rail electrification schemes last week. One was the Midland main line. The other the Cardiff to Swansea
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Hasn’t Brexit destroyed the case for a third Heathrow runway?
The FT quite appropriately notes the big issues facing airlines after Brexit this morning. Put bluntly, no one knows whether UK based aircraft will be
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The rise of renewables makes the continuing case for a Green New Deal
As the FT reports in an email this morning: Renewables have overtaken coal as the world’s largest source of power capacity and the sector is
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The FT and Climate QE
I have already noted that Climate QE made it to the letters page of the Guardian this morning. It was also in the FT’s letters
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Climate QE in the Guardian this morning
This letter is in the Guardian this morning: Your editorial rightly highlights the serious problem of finding adequate funding to allow developing countries to tackle
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If oil prices stay low we need new taxes on it
According to the FT Opec has said it will not cut oil production even if the price of oil falls to $20 a barrel. That
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We can’t burn our way to growth
Martin Wolf makes an observation in the FT this morning that my friend and Green New Deal colleague Jeremy Leggett has been making for some
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Hinkley Point: poverty of thinking pointing to a disaster waiting to happen
Hinkly Point C nuclear power station is to go ahead. So, the UK government is going to give a state owned French company working in
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Life can only be lived within limits
My friend and Green New Deal colleague, Andrew Simms, had an excellent article in the Guardian yesterday in which he pointed out that best estimates
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