Energy
For Climate Alarmism, The Poor Pay The Price
Lord Stern’s new tract on global warming will help his Green allies to build their latter-day Tower of Babel, but renewables are irrelevant to megacities
Ditch Ed Miliband’s Crazy Energy Legacy
The costly and impractical Climate Change Act was nodded through by a lazy Commons and has been rendered obsolete by the oil price collapse
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
Cameron Cannot Win Without Cheap Energy
The PM can’t cut subsidies on renewables without splitting the Coalition. But how else can he trump Miliband’s price freeze?
An Alternative To Our Reckless Energy Gamble
Foolhardy government assumptions about fuel prices are making a transition to clean technology needlessly expensive
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
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
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
How the US’s Climate of Opinion Changed
Americans oppose the use of global warming to justify government intervention. Can a Republican candidate attack the consensus?
Idol Worship in Cancún
The climate change cause is a vehicle for world government, social control and Western self-flagellation
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics