The world can be a confusing and sometimes wonderfully naïve place. With huge challenges across the globe, it’s almost touching to see people humbled by the task ahead of them. And like many people before them who were humbled by Nature, they fall into predictable patterns of behaviour. Even advocates of science will find themselves seeking something in the charismatic and avuncular, turning for answers to a sixteen-year-old Swedish advocate of mass truancy and Ukraine’s answer to Peter Capaldi…
Combining energy security with net zero by 2030 is a pipe dream
The weakest link in the Starmer government chain is energy secretary, Ed Miliband.