Nothing concentrates minds like a war, along with all the domino effects it precipitates. In a globalised world with (as it turned out) extravagantly overextended supply chains, the effect of 190,000 Russian soldiers occupying a relatively modest proportion of the territory of Ukraine, a country previously peripheral to geopolitical priorities, produced a disproportionate global outcome, nowhere more dramatically than in the field of energy supply and security. Overnight, it became a different world.
Ideology is trumping facts on the ground for Ed Miliband
The Labour government’s view that we can leapfrog over hydrocarbons and head straight to renewables ignores the technical reality.