News and Updates

A while back one of our many recent prime ministers decided – pretty much on a whim – to bring the date forward when petrol / diesel cars could no longer be sold in the UK.  Rather than select 2035...

Reading in The Times that “ministers … have agreed to work on a government-backed scheme to convert domestic oil-fired boilers to run on green fuels”, did not fill me with much confidence, especially as new oil boilers were due to...

I read an article the other day – I forget where – trying to argue that groups such as Just Stop Everything and Exhaustion Rebellion are the modern equivalent of the Suffragettes; that is “people who are prepared to be...

Almost everyone I know is expecting a change of government at the next general election, and expecting it to be decisive; that is to say no hung parliaments, minority regimes, or small majorities.  Landslides are in the offing, I'm promised.  Well,...

On of our cunning net zero goals is to have installed wind capacity of 50GW by 2030.  It is currently 15.  Whilst that always looked a stretch, I think the elastic has just broken. In its annual auction of building...

Did you know that, from 2025, the government was planning to impose a £118 / year charge on domestic energy bills to cover the cost of producing hydrogen.  Me neither, and I try to keep an eye on such things....

Who do you suppose said this: "We need to be conscious about the economic effects that any measures have on different groups within society, because we know that people on lower incomes tend to drive older cars that are going...

I have long thought that the scribblings of the green wonks at the Climate Change Committee need greater scrutiny that they routinely get.  That might be beginning to happen given the recent coverage of the Committee's Sixth Carbon Budget report....

It's good to keep an eye on Germany when it comes to climate and (de)industrialisation policy, particularly as the Greens are in power.  Well, they seem to be both in power and in opposition these days – see this from...

I see that the RSPB is in the news again for all the wrong reasons – a twitter comment of course.  I understand that it has taken around £78m of funding from the government since 2018, with grants currently running...