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Keeping The Lights On: the Politics of Cheap Energy

British policy is not rooted in economic reality but dictated by the Green Blob. It is time to break a consensus that is costing us dear

November 25, 2014

Energy·Features

ONLINE ONLY: Will Shale Gas Save the British Economy?

A tax windfall from fracking in the North East would merely delay the inevitable day of reckoning for a bloated public sector

January 28, 2013

Economy·Energy·Environment·Features·UK Politics

Forget Wind: Time for Britain to Get Fracking

Blinded by climate change dogma, the government seems determined to play down the Lancashire shale gas bonanza

March 26, 2012

Energy·Features

The Secret of Cheap Energy: Fire Chris Huhne

The global price of gas should be falling, but our "greenest ever" government is busy driving up the cost of heating our homes

December 19, 2011

Energy·Features

Idol Worship in Cancún

The climate change cause is a vehicle for world government, social control and Western self-flagellation

December 16, 2010

Counterpoints·Energy·Environment

Thank God for the Glory of Gas

Britain takes for granted the benefits that natural gas has brought but they are miraculous

December 16, 2010

Economy·Energy·Features

Renewables Won’t Keep the Lights On

If you thought that wind power would be affordable, think again

December 16, 2010

Energy·Environment·Features

Beyond Climate Hubris

An open letter to Chris Huhne calls for a new pragmatic approach to rebuild public trust

May 21, 2010

Energy·Environment·Features

Powerful Attraction

A new British-pioneered nuclear reactor can help cut our reliance on fossil fuels

December 16, 2009

Cosmos·Energy·Science·Technology

Bearhugged by Uncle Vlad

Germany's fawning attitude towards Putin stems from a belief that Russia is the nearest thing it has to a colony

December 15, 2008

Eastern Europe·Energy·Espionage·Europe·Features·Germany·Global Governance·History·International·Media·Politics·Publishing·Russia·The West

The leader of Norway's Progress Party, Siv Jensen, has a good chance of winning next year's election. In an interview with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson, she explains her views; Bruce Bawer explains

November 25, 2008

The British Gas Man Cometh (Not)

Standpoint senior editor Miriam Gross tries seven times in vain to negotiate the hopeless beaurocracy of British Gas’s customer service department Thursday Conversation One. 1.15pm Hello. Welcome to British Gas. Calls are

November 24, 2008

Dialogue·Energy·Modern Life·Satire