Category Economy General
DO I WANT ANOTHER LABOUR GOVERNMENT?
I made some comments on a Jeremy Warner piece in the Daily Telegraph yesterday (link below). In one of the replies a correspondent (andp) asked me if I wanted to see the Labour Party in government after the next General Election. This is what I said to andp (edited slightly for this post) … I think […]
ENERGY – REALITY INTRUDES
Since around the end of the last century, and certainly within the first few years of the 21st century it seemed clear to me that the only game in town for the coming 25 years – and quite possibly for the next 50 years – would be energy; specifically, mankind’s insatiable appetite for energy, exacerbated […]
IF PROOF WERE EVER NEEDED
In one of my recent posts (‘Energy and the Dismal Science’) I said that “our complex society … doesn’t work – it just doesn’t work – unless the economy grows consistently and reliably at around 3% per year … without economic growth the system starts to implode, and pretty quickly at that; honest.” If proof were […]