Leading by example is all well and good. Impoverishing yourself in order to make a point, not so much.
The importance of having a reliable baseload of firm power remains essential to the energy mix.
The first piece in a mini-series on ConHome this week on Net Zero and climate change.
Finding cost-effective solutions is one of the biggest challenges we face as a country over the next decade.
By uniting behind Johnson’s plan, and replicating the approach of these two mayors, the the environment can become a winning issue for the party.
The best way of thinking about it isn’t to fix one’s gaze on direct subsidies, but to look wider – at our failure to turn British ideas into British prosperity.
The third piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.
I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.
Very rarely do the stars align in favour of a truly inspiring act of leadership. They are doing so for Border Carbon Adjustment. It just needs a catchier name.
These are my starters for ten – so it’s over to you. What are the biggest choices? What are the problems that we have to get ahead of to keep afloat?
Action on decarbonising heat so far is not nearly sufficient to meet our 2050 net zero target. But a potential solution is right under our noses.
Not only is it a fuel of the future, but it can help the Government achieve its levelling up agenda.
A careful reading of Hayek and Adam Smith will confirm that neither was invariably opposed to state action.