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15 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood One more reason why the Net Zero Act must be cancelled. The UK’s energy security is far too important to be put at the whim of a judge and an eco-nutjob, who is no doubt funded by far left eco groups. (It is an extremely expensive process going to judicial review, […]
Legal challenge made over ‘net zero’ power plant
14 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood The general election is now dominating our national life, generating wall-to-wall media coverage. But while dramas such as Nigel Farage’s decision to stand in Clacton, Rishi Sunak’s D-Day blunder and the first two television debates dominate the headlines, far less noticed was Labour’s energy policy announcement. Party leader Sir […]
Starmer risks losing support for fighting climate change
13 Jun 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood Sir Keir Starmer is standing by a pledge to ban new drilling in the North Sea, despite New Zealand abandoning a similar policy amid blackout fears. Labour’s manifesto, due out on Thursday, will feature a pledge to block all new licensing for oil and gas as one of its key […]
How Jacinda Ardern left New Zealand on the brink of blackouts
11 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in politics Tags: British politics
The latest polling summary projects that the Conservatives could lose 310 of their 376 seats, leaving them just 66. Labour would win 485 and the Lib Dems 59. Most polls were before Nigel Farage announced he will resume the Reform Party leadership and the D Day disaster. Unclear how much impact this may have, but […]
Conservatives may come third
08 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood . Will net zero upend our lifestyles? Will we fly less, turn down our thermostats, become vegans? The British public are already feeling the effects – from the push to buy EVs and install heat pumps, to Ulez, low-traffic neighbourhoods and the endless restrictions on plastics. Although the UK became the first […]
The rich will soon pay a heavy price for net zero
06 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood h/t Russell Hicks Ben Pile’s rebuttal of the government’s response to the petition to repeal the Climate Change Act: Earlier this year, a petition on the UK government’s website called for the repeal of the 2008 Climate Change Act and Net Zero targets. It argued that allowing only “one […]
The UK government’s climate intransigence–Ben Pile
05 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics Tags: British constitutional law, British politics, Scotland
*Editors’ Note: This post is part of the ‘Unwritten Constitutional Norms and Principles Blog Series’* Throughout the life of devolution, the courts appear to have diverged on how to properly determine the scope and limits of devolved lawmaking power, and the extent to which norms and principles not expressly contained in the text of the […]
Nicholas Kilford: Interpreting The Devolution Statutes
01 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood h/t Russell Hicks You could not make it up!! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/05/31/keir-starmer-private-jet-clean-energy-plan-launch-scotland/ What a pathetic excuse! There was no reason at all why this announcement had to be made in Scotland, other than sheer politicking. And there was certainly no reason why it could not have been made a few hours […]
Starmer mocked for flying in private jet to launch party’s clean energy plan
30 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, Scotland
By Paul Homewood London: 28 May 2024 Net Zero Watch says SNP U-turn would leave Labour looking like ‘eco-extremists’ Campaign group Net Zero Watch has welcomed suggestions that the Scottish National Party might be about to abandon its policy of shutting down the North Sea oilfields. This week, Aberdeen businesses warned that the […]
Net Zero Watch says SNP U-turn would leave Labour looking like ‘eco-extremists’
26 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Gas bills are projected to rise by around £1,000 to pay for wind power under official plans currently being considered by the Energy Secretary. Claire Coutinho received a report earlier this year that suggested moving some or all green levies from household electricity bills to gas […]
Gas bills could rise by £1,000 to pay for wind power
22 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: British politics, free speech, Gaza Strip, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
The London police are under fire this week for threatening to arrest a man wearing a kippah near a pro-Palestinian march. Officers inform Gideon Falter, head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism watchdog, that he was “antagonizing” the protesters by being “openly Jewish” near such a march. He was told that, if he tried to cross […]
“You Are Quite Openly Jewish”: London Police Under Fire for Confrontation With Man Near Anti-Israeli March
28 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
Challenge is putting it mildly. Cloud cuckoo land beckons once again in the form of impossible but supposedly climate-related targets. Some timescales are hard to shorten just by uttering demands. – – – A report by Policy Exchange, supported by analysis from Aurora Energy Research, outlines challenges facing Labour’s aim to achieve a decarbonised power […]
Labour’s net zero target faces £116bn ‘investment challenge’
27 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination Tags: British politics, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Vaughan Gething has just been elected as First Minister of Wales. He is black (his mother is Zambian) and this makes him the first black leader of a country in Europe. It also means that none of the four leaders of the UK are white men. And I (especially) have nothing against white men, but […]
The UK shows why it is one of the most tolerant countries there is
13 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Rishi Sunak has made the case for building new gas-fired power plants on the grounds that reliable sources of electricity generation are needed to back up the intermittency of wind and solar generation. This simple statement of reality has prompted hostile comments from the usual suspects, […]
Net Zero is dead. Only the fanatics haven’t realised it
12 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, law and economics, transport economics, urban economics Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, British politics, electric cars, moral hazard
By Paul Homewood h/t Patsy Lacey Owners of some of the latest Chinese electric cars to enter Britain are facing expensive premiums and in some cases are ‘almost uninsurable’ for drivers. It comes after various reports of Range Rover owners struggling to find affordable cover for their vehicles, which is linked […]
Some Chinese electric cars are ‘almost uninsurable’ in Britain
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