Nadhim Zahawi MP: The security case for renewable energy, with back-up from small-scale nuclear and gas

Events in the Middle East and Russia have shown why we need to reduce our dependence on politically volatile parts of the world.

Dr Capell Aris: Is our present wind fleet really fit for purpose?

My study of it produced disappointing results.

“If oil is a Queen, Baku is her throne.” A visit to Azerbaijan

Politically repressive, religiously moderate, pro-capitalist in thinking and ex-communist in feel, the country is bound up with British jobs, interests and prosperity.

Paterson is right about the Climate Change Act

Like a latter-day Gladstone, the former Environment Secretary has come among us unmuzzled.

Alexander Temerko: Conventional gas. Interconnectors. More nuclear. How to join the UK energy security dots

Security and stable prices are best achieved by concentrating on one or two areas and doing them well.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: The real Tory divide is between the majority that wants to win and the minority that doesn’t

The latter need to ask themselves: when did they become the thing they most hate in the world. When did they become LibDems?

War in Europe

Russia has invaded Ukraine – what can we do about it?

The oil industry – looking a bit peaky, after all 

We wouldn’t be searching for oil in dangerous and difficult areas like the Arctic if there was enough of it coming from more accessible fields.

Alistair Burt MP: Amidst the turmoil of Iraq, my hopes for Kurdistan

It is at the cross-roads of the Shia-Sunni conflict, yet remains outside of it. It is a majority Muslim country, but with a history of peaceful co-existence.

How not to win public support for shale gas exploration – or any other kind of development

Thanks to ministerial high-handedness, local people are about as well disposed to fracking as the average landless peasant was to the Enclosure Acts

A warning about Putin, Ukraine and Litvinenko

The fact that so little has changed in the intervening years, despite all Russia has done, is depressing.

Joe Storey: Myths and facts about fracking

The vast majority of concerns are either false or can be addressed by competent regulation.

Dr James Hannam: The Green Deal isn’t just a failure – it’s a rip off and a scandal

Of the 210,000 people who have had Green Deal Assessments, just 12,000 have gone on to actually make their homes more environmentally friendly under the scheme.

Elizabeth Anderson: Fracking isn’t the future for many voters

Stamping oil and gas wells all over the British countryside is going to lose votes – and for what gain?

Nigel Farage: Vote UKIP next week to send a message to Brussels – and the whole political class

These elections are your free hit against a deeply complacent and craven establishment that is wedded to outdated ideas that are failing the British people.