We pay members of Parliament to solve problems, not to smear people

Have they got nothing better to do?

Time for the climate change talk to stop

To permit the climate to change or not to permit the climate to change; that is the question. You can read, see and hear about the importance of address climate change every day. Most of the talking is done by scientists and politicians. The former group can see the evil of climate change that threatens [...]

The energy and environmental policies of the Conservative Party

Every political party wants to appear to have “green” policies these days. Green is the new black. The policies of the Government in the United Kingdom are well defined but inchoate, and more observed in their talk than in their action. They talk the talk but do not, when push comes to shove walk the [...]

UK terrorism laws applied to things that are nothing to do with terrorism

Parliament has enacted a series of anti-terrorism laws which are being used in ways that have nothing to do with terrorism. Great care must be taken before you give the police or the tax authorities more power because they will inevitably use powers given for one reason to assist them in ways that were not [...]

The Climate Change Bill will not change climate change

Peter Lilley is a Conservative MP and he has criticised the Climate Change Bill, working its way through Parliament, because it represents poor value. He places the cost at “up to” £10,000 per family in a blog written for the BBC’s very large and informative website, although it is unclear how the £10,000 is calculated [...]

Boris Johnson and Climate Change

There must be something in this climate change business if good old Boris Johnson, recently elected Mayor of London, has changed his mind about it. Just three years ago Mr Johnson in his friendly, semi-blustering and witty style poured scorn on the whole concept that the climate was changing due to human activity. This conservative [...]

UK’s nuclear energy will cease to be under government control

The UK’s nuclear energy will shortly cease to come under government control.
Centrica (the energy company which owns British Gas) is buying 25% of British Energy, the nuclear generating plant, from EDF. The UK Government owns 35% of British Energy, which is worth according to the price that Centrica paid for its shares, around £4.3 billion. [...]

Suddenly, renewable energy is important, say the Government

There have been many new “green energy” policies announced recently; we have heard about £100 billion that will be spent on green energy in the next ten years, the forests of wind farms that will be built in the United Kingdom and solar thermal systems for seven million UK homes by 2020.
Suddenly we are [...]

What does “vote blue for green” mean?

Gregory Barker is the Conservative’s shadow environment minister and has been in this post since late 2005. With the Labour Government at an all time low in the opinion polls and the Prime Minister ,Gordon Brown, seeming to have lost the nation’s confidence, it seems likely that Mr Barker will be the environment minister when [...]

The new nuclear renaissance – an easy decision but…

John Hutton is Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. By training he is a lawyer, but he now is in charge of Energy for the United Kingdom. His problem is to set out an energy policy that will provide the nation over the long term with energy as cheaply and as low [...]