According to a National Grid executive, Labour's energy plans mean consumers in the England's Southeast will either have to ration their electricity use or face blackouts. When will the insanity end? asks Ben Pile.
When Ben Pile moved into a new house he got a nasty surprise. It had a prepayment meter that was about to run out of credit. Fixing this proved to be absurdly hard, which, presumably, is just what the green lobby wants.
With swivel-eyed zeal, Ed Miliband has been telling broadcasters he has a "mandate" to deliver his unworkable and unaffordable Net Zero agenda. Not when just 20% of the public voted for you, says Ben Pile.
While China advances with cutting-edge nuclear power, Britain's green zealots have us stuck with sky-high bills and a nuclear sector in disarray, says Ben Pile.
The 'Green Physician Toolkit' is just the latest move from the climate ideologues who have colonised medicine, intent on turning a once scientific profession into a den of activism, says Ben Pile.
Britain doesn't have enough land for all the solar panels that would be needed to power Labour's nutty Net Zero agenda, says Ben Pile. Truth is, you can't make everything electric and run it on sunshine.
If Keir Starmer really intends to govern "unburdened by doctrine" why did he put a swivel-eyed climate zealot in charge of Britain's energy policy?
Labour's Energy Secretary Ed Miliband wasted no time in ending the "ban" on onshore wind. But with unreliable wind power escalating in cost, this blind commitment to wind power could be Labour's undoing, says Ben Pile.
EV owners got a shock when Sadiq Khan announced the end of the EV Congestion Charge exemption. But Ben Pile saw it coming, noting pricey EVs are really a bridging technology between having a car and not having a car.
The CBI is supposed to represent British industry but is now largely focused on pushing green propaganda. Its latest report claims Net Zero will boost the economy. Ben Pile looks at how the figures were cooked up.
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