Opinions

When I was made Energy Secretary in 2023, I asked civil servants what I thought was a simple question: prove to me that renewables are cheap. This was, after...

Would you rather have clean electricity or cheap electricity? What if you could have both? It's no secret that Net Zero is making Britain poorer and weaker. But...

Not too long ago, stating that biological sex was real was a career-ending act of bravery. Kathleen Stock was hounded out of her university job. Maya Forstater...

In my three years covering the energy brief, I have never seen anything like this. I first raised concerns put to me by whistleblowers within our grid operator...

The control room engineers at the NESO balance Britain’s electricity supply and demand. If they don’t get it right, the lights go out and people die. This is...

Kemi Badenoch declared that the Aberdeen South by-election was going to be a referendum on our oil and gas industry. The election of the Conservative candidate...

There is a particular breed of politician who wants to send Britain back to the Dark Ages. Ed Miliband, with his bans on tumble dryers and underfloor heating...

“What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world...

We need to kick identity politics out of public life. Racism has been weaponised across our public services and institutions. In the cases of the Nottingham and...