What to make of Germany’s geopolitical impotence
A good slice of the blame for Germany being more brachiosaurus than tiger goes to Angela Merkel.
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A good slice of the blame for Germany being more brachiosaurus than tiger goes to Angela Merkel.
2022 has left much more lasting marks than most, thanks to the war on Ukraine, the bursting of the China myth and the realisation of the risks of World War Three surrounding Taiwan.
The decision to open a new coal mine in Whitehaven has provoked an outcry in the national press. But the decision has largely been met with relief from locals.
But the government must take radical action in its energy security strategy to put the country on the front foot.
The government has ignored the challenges of secure energy supplies for decades at its peril. But time is running out and the PM must find ways to balance the transition to green energy by investing in reliable energy sources.
Editor Iain Martin highlights Simon Nixon’s piece in The Times about the necessity of self-sufficiency, Maggie Pagano draws attention to energy policy, and Alastair Benn focuses on Bruno Macaes’s piece in the New Statesman on tech billionaires.
Maggie Pagano talks to Simon French, chief economist at Panmure Gordon, about the recent spike in gas prices and why government policy has led to an inefficient market.
The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is the single most important tool in evaluating the effectiveness of climate change mitigation policies, such as subsidies to
It would be fair to say that Trump is not a true believer when it comes to climate change. The new president-elect once tweeted ‘The
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