I don’t think that we serve our children or planet well giving in to the counsel of despair. Tackling it is more akin to an engineering challenge – one we know we can do.
On some issues, he got it wrong. On other issues, he got it right but is misrepresented by some of his cheerleaders. And on other issues, he was right in the context of the time but circumstances have changed.
We might get the most optimal outcomes from the Independent Net Zero Review by extracting the best of it and focusing our efforts. Let’s prioritise those priorities.
Commentators focus their attention on the Red or Blue walls, but the Conservatives shouldn’t turn their backs on the green bridge of voters in both camps, especially when we have a strong record on climate and the environment.
And her government has decided that the best time to do all this is in the middle of the most serious energy crisis in decades.
The moral strictures of hard-line green activists are no foundation for a sensible energy policy.
The worst outcome would be long-term contracts that turn out to be bad value, and which no one feels like they signed up to.
It took a long time for voters to grasp the need for Britain to live within its means during the 1960s and 1970s. It may do so again.
With the global population exploding and relative power of the west declining, we should reduce our dependence on the kindness of strangers.
Grant Shapps adds that the Government is focussing on other energy sources such as nuclear power.
Jonathan Reynolds says “we should be making those plans” and criticises government “complacency”.
This list of allies and partners includes Australia, Israel, South Korea, Japan, Oman, Qatar and Singapore.
The Chancellor should not feel constrained by the OBR’s forecasts into limiting the actions he can take.
The Russian invasion in Ukraine is not a reason to give up on it. Rather, it is a reason to redouble efforts to get there as quickly as possible.
Green Finance may sound admirably ambitious, but if it means diverting capital from efficient, market-driven investments into manipulated ones then we will all suffer. Nobody has voted to be made poorer.