Patrick Heren
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
Thank God for the Glory of Gas
Britain takes for granted the benefits that natural gas has brought but they are miraculous
The Death Knell of the British Empire
Surabaya, October 1945: The forgotten Indonesian war that foreshadowed today’s conflicts, as a humanitarian mission turned into a bloodbath
Love in the Time of Polio
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Sell Off the BBC
It’s time to think the unthinkable, and admit that privatising the BBC is a great idea
Bloody Nerve
Why did no one warn me about District 9?
Clouds of war and strategic delusions
Britain’s strategic outlook requires realism about the kind of conflicts we are prepared and willing to fight
Search engine: why Germany's foreign policy flounders
Europe’s economic colossus is crippled by identity politics and self-obsession. It exports instability
Alliances and dalliances
“The lethal combination of the Trump administration’s “America First” approach and many European members’ complacent, cowardly and stingy approach risks making Nato irrelevant”