Matt Ridley
Sir Keir Starmer has woken up to the fact that his policies are killing one of Britain’s last successful manufacturing industries, the £90-billion-a-year car industry, on which 800,000 jobs depend. ‘This is the beginning of a new era,’ said Starmer yesterday, as he announced plans to aid the motor industry by relaxing environmental rules following Trump’s 25 […]
Taking away our boilers, cars and steaks will cause major economic damage
Matt Ridley
Work and money for glaziers doesn’t mean wealth for the rest of us A leaked government analysis has found that Net Zero could crash the economy, reducing GDP by a massive 10% by 2030. Yet the spectacular thing about this analysis is that it expects this to happen not if Net Zero fails – but […]
Britain’s net zero, green energy madness is set for a head-on collision with reality
Matt Ridley
Appeared in the Telegraph; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/23/green-energy-net-zero-renewables-uk-miliband/ Britain’s net zero plan is to nearly double the demand for electricity (for heating, transport and artificial intelligence) and switch off most of the supply (gas and much of nuclear). If you think that does not add up, you are right. Perhaps Ed (Miliwatt-hour) Miliband is deliberately showing Keir […]
