Sam Hall: The solution to a gas crisis is not to deepen our dependence on gas

For the sake of our bills as well as our security interests, we need to double down on homegrown green energy instead.

How to cut the cost of living

When it comes to helping working people, a tax cut to hand would be the cancellation of the Health and Social Care Levy.

John Redwood: The UK’s energy policy increasingly looks like self-inflicted harm on a huge scale

Ministers have no sufficient answers to the question: ‘how do we keep the lights on?’

John Redwood: We’re free of EU membership and can motor to our own destiny. But still drive nervously in L-plates. Why?

There should be a growth target to complement the inflation target – to drive government departments to take actions that will promote more UK activity and jobs.

Jason McCartney: The Heat and Buildings strategy paves the way for Net Zero – plus warmer homes and new well-paying jobs.

But heat pumps work best in energy efficient homes. Here lies another opportunity for everyone to insulate them.

Eamonn Ives: Markets, price signals, and supply-side reforms can hasten decarbonisation. Ministers take note.

Extending carbon pricing would serve as a constant pressure on emissions. But it won’t be enough on its own.

Chris Skidmore: Nuclear power. More small reactors in the future? Fine. But we need more big ones soon if the lights are to stay on.

It is surprising that the nuclear industry remains without a seat around the table at COP26. They deserve to be an integral part of the negotiation.

John Redwood: Our energy policy should start with keeping the lights on and the factories powered up

The Business Secretary needs to review the mesh of subsidies, regulations, penalty taxes and import arrangements that passes for an energy policy.

Bim Afolami: After the reshuffle, back to the future – NHS queues, rising energy bills, and higher prices

For all the focus elsewhere, the most important domestic department for the next two years will be the Department of Health.

David Green: Wealth extraction, not wealth creation. The Morrisons takeoever – and why government should be prepared to intervene.

A careful reading of Hayek and Adam Smith will confirm that neither was invariably opposed to state action.

Bob Blackman: Sizewell C is key to taking control of the UK’s energy production – and achieving Net Zero

The importance of having a reliable baseload of firm power remains essential to the energy mix.

Sam Hall: How to help poorer people meet the costs of net zero

The first piece in a mini-series on ConHome this week on Net Zero and climate change.

Bim Afolami: The politics of Net Zero are more perilous than we think

It won’t be sufficient to cover the costs just for the lowest income voters – most voters will need environmentally sustainable options to be heavily subsided.

Clive Moffatt: The Government should come clean – and explain that reaching the net zero target by 2050 may not be possible

It is about to embark on an ambitious plan for net zero carbon emissions when we can least afford it. There may be a more affordable option.

Sarah Ingham: A blue party + green promises = yellow vests

As the Government ushers us towards net zero, it had better be sure of the science. Unless it’s willing to risk a British equivalent of the Gilets Jaunes.