A rather plaintive little tweet from Ed Miliband complaining about the hostile reaction among populists on social and national media to his announcement about new offshore wind licences. “In the past 18 months, a well-funded right-wing network has waged a relentless war against clean power,” he writes. “When we set out our mission, they said it couldn’t be done, or […]
Binary numbers
One of the most depressing aspects of contemporary debate on major issues is the way lobbying cynically reduces complex issues to simplistic, binary choices. On energy production it’s: Concentrating on wind and solar is the only route to carbon reduction. or If we don’t it’ll be back to coal, oil and gas for our power. On mainline rail capacity it’s: […]