Just Stop Oil members are disrupting oil and gas production, causing petrol stations to run dry, just as households contend with record fuel prices and the worst squeeze in living standards since the war.
At the end of last year, supply chain disruptions looked set to ease in 2022. But war in Ukraine and China’s worst Covid outbreak have unleashed fresh trouble.
The viability of Russia maintaining a fixed rate of roubles for gold is closely related to what happens to demand for Russian energy.
The energy price cap rise has placed roughly a quarter of UK households in fuel poverty. Why are prices soaring and what can we do about it?
Neil Collins’ Notebook: Taxing Putin into submission, bond yields stay negative, and why investors should shun nuclear.
As the energy price cap rise kicks in today, we are witnessing the largest increase in gas and electricity costs in living memory.
Global gas and grain shortages are a classic example of chaos theory in action: in a globalised world, a crisis in one country feeds into consequences for us all.
The Chancellor is thought to despise the forecaster for raining on his Budget parade.
Despite the looming crisis, forecasters expect consumer spending, the main engine of GDP growth, to grow.
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