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Civil Servants Are Deliberately Destroying Documents From The UK’s National Archive
Civil Servants Are Deliberately Destroying Documents From The UK’s National Archive In yet another galling example of historical revisionism put into practice, the Guardian reported Tuesday that thousands of documents from the National Archives have gone missing in recent years – and some may have been deliberately destroyed by civil servants hoping to purge unflattering […]
Bank Of England Warns The UK: ‘Economic Collapse’ If UK Keeps Borrowing Money
Bank Of England Warns The UK: ‘Economic Collapse’ If UK Keeps Borrowing Money The Bank of England is putting the United Kingdom on alert. Should the UK keep borrowing money, there will be a “Venezuela-style” economic collapse that will devastate normal citizens. A senior Bank official has warned that the UK’s economy would be unlikely to […]
Huge Hub Explosion Sparks Surge In UK NatGas Prices
Huge Hub Explosion Sparks Surge In UK NatGas Prices It has been a tough week already for those that heat their homes in Britain (and those that trade Natural Gas). Following extreme weather warnings and the forties pipeline crack shutdown, an explosion at one of the Europe’s biggest gas hubs further tightened supplies sending gas […]
UK Heating Gas Prices Spike To 2013 Highs Amid Weather “Yellow Warning”
UK Heating Gas Prices Spike To 2013 Highs Amid Weather “Yellow Warning” The U.K.’s Met Office issued a ‘yellow’ warning after dumps of snow over the weekend disrupted travel, sending the price of same-day heating gas prices to their highest since 2013… The average temperature in the U.K. for the rest of Monday will be […]
The End of Economic Growth
The End of Economic Growth UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond (finance minister) delivered his budget on Wednesday last week. The tame budget was overshadowed by news that UK productivity and hence economic growth had stalled. In this post I search for the underlying causes of economic malaise and explore the structure of UK […]
Helm and the death of UK wind and solar
Helm and the death of UK wind and solar In his recent post on the Helm Review Euan Mearns predicted that Helm’s recommendation that “intermittent producers need to bear the cost of converting intermittent to firm capacity” will, if adopted, “sound the death knell for new wind and solar projects in the UK”. This post […]
Doomsday Scenarios: the UK’s Hair-Raising Admissions About the Prospect of Nuclear War and Accident
Doomsday Scenarios: the UK’s Hair-Raising Admissions About the Prospect of Nuclear War and Accident Photo by Toby Scott | CC BY 2.0 The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has published several reports over the last few years. They discuss geopolitics and related themes, one of which is the likelihood of nuclear war or accident, including […]
Implementing the Helm Review on the Cost of UK Energy
Implementing the Helm Review on the Cost of UK Energy The UK Government has made a call for evidence on the Helm Review published on 25th October 2017. At the time the review was published I chose not to share my opinions on the consequences of implementing Helm’s proposals since I believe these may be […]
Centrally Planned UK Generation Scenarios for 2030
Centrally Planned UK Generation Scenarios for 2030 The economies of the European Union have centrally planned energy delivery strategies where the amount of electricity to be generated from a particular source by a particular time is planned in minute detail by legions of civil servants and academics. This post summarises some of the scenarios for […]
Lebanon – the next front in the Great Gas War.
Lebanon – the next front in the Great Gas War. The Great Gas War has already two distinct fronts: The now relatively quiet Northern Front in Ukraine and the Southern Front in Syria in which the Western empire has been losing. It looks to me that Lebanon is being targeted as the next front, where […]
European Court to Decide Whether U.K. Mass Surveillance Revealed By Snowden Violates Human Rights
Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg News/Getty Images EUROPEAN COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER U.K. MASS SURVEILLANCE REVEALED BY SNOWDEN VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS BRITISH SPY AGENCIES are under scrutiny in a landmark court case challenging the legality of top-secret mass surveillance programs revealed in documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. A panel of 10 judges at the European Court […]
Small Nuclear Reactors, a 50s Nightmare Come Back to Haunt Us
Small Nuclear Reactors, a 50s Nightmare Come Back to Haunt Us Photo by Neil H | CC BY 2.0 It’s easy to see why Rolls Royce and other companies in the nuclear engineering business are pushing the UK government finance the development a new generation of ‘small modular reactors’ or SMRs. Whether the project succeeds […]
US May Strike North Korea in November
US May Strike North Korea in November Former US President Jimmy Carter said he would be ready to travel to North Korea for peace talks, if the administration wanted him to go on a diplomatic mission. But President Trump does not appear to be chomping at the bit to grab the opportunity for launching a diplomatic initiative. […]
The UK’s Clean Energy Strategy – and the greens are back
The UK’s Clean Energy Strategy – and the greens are back The UK government’s just-published Clean Energy Strategysupposedly leads the way to the low-carbon future that the 2008 Climate Change Act calls for. But all it actually does is dust off all the old, shop-worn green remedies (smart meters, smart grids, EVs, hydrogen, bioenergy, carbon […]
