NESO calls for an extra £89bn of grid spending beyond 2030. DAVID TURVER Regular readers will remember out recent article documenting the forecast rise in subsidies and grid integration costs from £19.8bn in 2024/25 to over £40bn in 2030/31. Of this total, grid integration costs more than triple from £8bn in 2024/25 to £25bn in 2030/31. Grid…
For an idea routinely dismissed as “dubious” or an “obsession” of the political Right, the suggestion that Britain is embarked on the road to civil war has proved stubbornly resilient. Each new episode of disorder seems only to revive it. The disturbances that followed the Henry Nowak trial, the attempted beheading in Belfast and the rioting that erupted afterwards…
It proved impossible to do what she had advised, fortunately, as it would have cost me even more money, so I called again. This time another – very helpful woman – gave me the correct info and we got it sorted out alright. I then asked her why the other woman had not been able…
PFI was only the prototype. Britain has learned to turn hospitals, bills, children’s homes, data platforms and public contracts into private income streams backed by compulsion, regulation and the impossibility of walking away. THE RESTORATIONIST EDITOR Britain retains every public duty but outsources every means of fulfilling them. The result is not privatisation, not socialism,…
Which taxes will Burnham raise this autumn? A summer of damaging tax speculation is already well underway NEIL O’BRIEN Andy Burnham has declared that there is “room for movement on tax”. Will Burnham really put up taxes yet again this autumn? You might think that having broken their promises and increased national insurance, increased income…
The climate scaremongers: Junk sites behind the Met Office’s so-called heat records PAUL HOMEWOOD LAST week was even hotter than the summer of 1976, or at least that is what the Met Office keeps telling us. Is that really the case, though? It was certainly extremely hot for a few days. We were inundated with…
