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The strange tale of the North Sea Link

The strange tale of the North Sea Link

I honestly had no intention of writing a second consecutive article about an obscure energy link no-one’s ever heard of, but then something happened that drew my attention to the North Sea Link. I promise it’s more interesting than it might at first sound! The North Sea Link

The Single Market Britain never left

The Single Market Britain never left

Not long after the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, it transpired that Theresa May’s new government had determined that this would mean leaving the single market - the economic deal at the heart of EU membership. It’s worth noting in passing that this was

Value, Importance & Tomatoes 🍅

Value, Importance & Tomatoes 🍅

I wrote something for today's Sunday Times. The theme won’t come as much of a surprise if you’ve read a few of my other recent pieces here: that solving the current energy crisis and for that matter hitting net zero is a lot more complicated (and

The industrial re-revolution

The industrial re-revolution

Economists are obsessed with the industrial revolution. And when I say obsessed I mean obsessed. The more economic history you read (and I read quite a lot) the more you realise how much of it is really about the industrial revolution - even when those words are nowhere in the

Climate change: why isn't government putting its money where their mouth is?

Climate change: why isn't government putting its money where their mouth is?

Let’s begin with a question. How much would you say governments around the developed world spend on research into energy? They certainly talk about it rather a lot, from Joe Biden to Boris Johnson (and for that matter from Barack Obama to David Cameron) they have talked continually about

Energy and Inflation: A Series of Unfortunate Events

Energy and Inflation: A Series of Unfortunate Events

Sellindge is a village in Kent just off the A20 between Ashford and Folkestone. It is so small - just over 1,000 inhabitants - that most people barely notice it as they speed down towards the English Channel in their cars or on the Eurostar. But if you were