Energy
George Osborne’s epic kowtow to China
Cameron and Osborne have a very clear China policy: do whatever China wants
Don’t weep for Costa – but the Living Wage punishes small businesses that need our support
What is George Osborne’s Living Wage? Is it a ploy to shift cost from the taxpayer to the employer by…
Max Hastings’s diary: How sporting tourists play into Nicola Sturgeon’s hands
During our annual odyssey around the Scottish Highlands, I read Tears of the Rajas, Ferdinand Mount’s eloquent indictment of imperial…
The triumph of nuclear weapons – and the defeat of nuclear power
‘I visited the black marble obelisk which marks the epicentre of the explosion, and I saw the plain domestic wall-clock…
Britain needs to get fracking
That democracy is a superior form of government to any other goes without saying. But in order to function, it…
The only certain winner in the Greek stand-off: cliché
The clear winner in the Greek crisis is the author of The Little Book of Negotiating Clichés, whose royalties must…
In being suckered into climate alarmism, the Pope risks backing policies that hurt the world's poor
In his latest encyclical Pope Francis will apparently describe global warming as a ‘major threat to life on the planet’.…
Why Saudi Arabia is kicking back against the USA
Why America’s once-cautious ally suddenly looks so skittish
Matt Ridley’s diary: Why a Guardian contributor wants me beheaded
Martin Williams, former head of the government’s air quality science unit, has declared that the reason we have a problem…
As oil prices plunge, I want to profit from the next spike. Here’s how
The ins and outs of betting on an oil price bounce
Revealed: five British royals who definitely slept with underage girls
Teen queens The Duke of York denied allegations in court papers that he had had sexual relations with a girl…
How Italy failed the stress test (and Emilio Botín didn’t)
Continuing last week’s theme, it was the Italian banks — with nine fails, four still requiring capital injections — that…
Wave power is a really, really stupid idea. That’s why it’s getting so much taxpayer subsidy
Civil servants think wave power will transform the country. They’re wrong. You’re paying
The return of oil price anxiety is a timely reminder to get fracking
‘Iraq turmoil sends crude oil prices to nine-month high’ is the sort of headline that used to send shivers down…
Why can’t country views be protected from wind turbines?
City skylines are protected from careless building. Why should country views be different?
How green policies hurt the poor
How green policies hit the poorest hardest
Any other business: Britain’s chaotic energy policy puts us in Putin’s hands
To have written last month that the headline ‘Kiev in flames’ looked like a black swan on the economic horizon…
Why has Britain signed up for the world’s most expensive power station?
Britain is about to buy the world’s most expensive power station
You, too, can be a shale profiteer
Here’s how to get a slice of the fracking action
David Cameron on tax, coalition, ‘green crap’ and Team Nigella
He’d like to present you with single-party government and lower tax rates, among other things
Blackout Britain — why our energy crisis is only just beginning
Politicians, not the Big Six, have jacked up the price of power. And they’re only just getting started
The next election will break all the rules
Ed Miliband’s aides used to scurry around the parliamentary estate, their shoulders hunched. A look in their eyes suggested that…
This isn’t a property bubble – it’s a reason to improve London’s transport
Everyone —including me, if I’m honest — has been talking about a new property bubble. But is it for real?…
Think fracking’s bad for the countryside? Just look at farming…
I’m off to Balcombe this weekend. In fact I might even carry a placard and paint my face with a…
Mind your language: Frack vs frag
‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a frack,’ replied my husband unwittily when I asked how he’d feel if shale…
