The Guardian claims that reopening the North Sea to drilling in the Jackdaw and Rosebank fields will only supply 3% of the UK's gas needs. Ben Pile takes a look at the actual data and finds the truth is very different.
Ed Miliband's oil blockade of Britain is a war of attrition against the British public, says Ben Pile. Even communist China has cheap energy and industrialisation. Who needs enemies with a Government like this?
A strange new Left-wing cult of Ed Miliband has emerged that claims he has effectively been in power for the last 18 years. This greatly exaggerates the talents of the man, says Ben Pile: he is a symptom, not a cause.
So this is Ed Miliband's response to the Iran-triggered energy crisis: an impoverished public buying plug-in solar panels from the supermarket. But would you buy a Labour policy from Lidl's middle aisle, asks Ben Pile.
The Guardian has been busy pushing the Labour line that the energy crisis triggered by the Iran war proves Ed Miliband right about renewables. Don't you believe it, says Ben Pile: the economic fundamentals haven't changed.
Paul Ehrlich – author of The Population Bomb and failed prophet of doom, who has died aged 93 – lived a long, wealthy, healthy life, an opportunity his anti-growth work has denied to countless others, says Ben Pile.
Ursula von der Leyen's nuclear epiphany should trigger her resignation, says Ben Pile, but it won't. It's the latest sign of desperate European elites waking up to the utter catastrophe of their energy policy.
The Climate Change Committee has issued a new report claiming that the 'benefits' of Net Zero far outweigh its costs. What a load of bullshit, says Ben Pile: mere fantasy 'benefits' offsetting grossly underestimated costs.
As oil prices spike, Ed Miliband feels vindicated. But the truth, says Ben Pile, is that by ending gas drilling, toppling power stations and tripling energy prices in 20 years, the UK has created its own energy crisis.
Europe is finally waking up to the fact that China has no intention of letting climate action harm its industries. Friedrich Merz's epiphany as he visited China hastens the demise of Net Zero, says Ben Pile.
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