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There is a quiet but growing realisation among serious thinkers that something has gone fundamentally wrong in Britain. Not just politically. Not just economically. But structurally , in how this country builds, plans, and powers itself. One of those thinkers is Ben Southwood, editor of Works in Progress, who has spent years examining a simple…

There is a moment when a policy failure becomes too obvious to hide. Britain has just reached it. This week, we were told that households may soon be encouraged to use more electricity on sunny days , not because energy is suddenly abundant and cheap, but because the grid cannot cope with the volume of…

Most people assume food will always be there. The shelves may change. Prices may rise. Certain items may disappear for a few days. But beneath all that is a quiet public assumption that the system itself will hold. Ships will still arrive. Lorries will still move. Imports will still come. Somewhere, somehow, the global machine…

The United Kingdom is entering a period of acute strategic vulnerability. Over the past decade, the assumptions that shaped much of Western policy have begun to collapse. The era of easy globalisation, cheap imported goods, frictionless logistics, stable geopolitics, and rules-based optimism has given way to a more insecure world defined by rivalry, supply risk,…

Britain is sleepwalking into an energy crisis of its own making. Not because we lack generation, nor because demand is spiralling beyond control, but because the physical infrastructure underpinning the entire system is being built , and expanded , in the wrong places, with the wrong priorities, and with a dangerous disregard for environmental reality.…

They call it clean energy. They call it progress. They call it part of Britain’s green future. But the proposed Calderdale Energy Park at Walshaw Moor is not a harmless environmental scheme. It is a vast industrial development planned for one of the most sensitive upland landscapes in England. A landscape of peat, blanket bog,…

Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd wants the public to see Calderdale Energy Park as a clean, modern answer to climate change. The language is familiar. Thousands of homes powered. Millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide saved. A greener future for all. It sounds impressive. But the glossy headline hides the real story. Before a single turbine…

Britain is being told to accept the unacceptable. Across the country, productive farmland is being covered by solar panels, battery storage sites are being pushed near homes and villages, treasured landscapes are being industrialised, and communities are being expected to stay quiet while it happens. All of it is dressed up in the language of…

Shanks Sells 2029 Solar as if It Solves 2026 Energy Insecurity Energy Minister Michael Shanks wants the public to believe that approving Springwell Solar is a serious answer to the instability now shaking global energy markets. His statement sounds firm, patriotic and reassuring. It is also deeply misleading. He says the government is driving “further…

When Al Gore made An Inconvenient Truth, he presented climate change as a moral drama of carbon, politics and denial. It was persuasive, cinematic and emotionally powerful. But it also missed something fundamental. It largely treated the climate problem as though it were mainly about emissions choices within an otherwise unquestioned system. Change the fuels,…

By Shane Oxer — Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy Britain is being told that the energy transition is making the country cleaner, safer, and less exposed to global shocks. Ministers continue to present “clean power by 2030” as if it were synonymous with energy security. But those are not the same thing. The real…

For the past two years, I have followed Britain’s energy system with growing alarm. What began as concern over local solar farms, substations, and battery schemes soon turned into something much bigger. The more I looked, the clearer it became that we are not witnessing a smooth, rational transition from one sound energy system to…

Britain may get its fossil-free Easter moment — but Ofgem’s own review shows key parts of the lower-inertia safety case are still not fully demonstrated. Britain may yet get its Easter headline.A short spell with no fossil-fuel generation on the system. A symbolic “first.” A neat Net Zero milestone. But that is not the same…

There is one question at the heart of modern climate politics that almost nobody in the political class wants to answer honestly. If governments, international bodies and climate elites truly believe we are living through an immediate, existential emergency, why do they behave as though constant air travel, summit tourism, and media spectacle are still…

For nearly twenty years, An Inconvenient Truth has been treated as one of the defining texts of modern climate politics. Al Gore’s 2006 film was not presented as one man’s interpretation of a developing scientific debate. It was presented as a warning, a moral indictment, and, in effect, a settled verdict. The message was clear:…

For years, Britain’s energy debate has been conducted in the language of targets, pledges and transition pathways. Ministers spoke of “clean power”, campaigners spoke of “decarbonisation”, and Ed Miliband built his political identity around the belief that Britain could move steadily away from oil and gas without exposing itself to unacceptable risks. That argument is…

Cambridgeshire County Council presented North Angle Solar Park near Soham as a modern public investment: a major solar scheme that would cut emissions, bring in long-term revenue, and support frontline services such as adult social care.[1] The council’s own project page says the site was intended as a 30MW solar farm, built on council land,…

The public is being told that the path to 2030 is clear: buy electric cars, switch to electric heating, cover the country with more renewable generation, and trust that the system will catch up. But once you look beneath the slogans, the picture is far less convincing. Millions of British homes are not practically ready…

“Texas shows what happens when the green promise ends in broken blades and broken promises. Scotland and the North Sea are heading toward the same reckoning unless decommissioning, recycling, and financial liability are dealt with before expansion goes any further.” The disturbing scenes from Sweetwater, Texas, should be read in Britain not as a distant…