TORE ANDOL By: Tore Andøl, economist and author of ‘How dare you’ and ‘Green rotten apples’ Current Situation Many have written extensively about energy trends and analytical interpretations of the annual datasets from the Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World Energy. Let me just summarize a few highlights: Fossil energy still accounts for 86.2% of all energy consumption,…
Why more cells won’t fix the prisons crisis WILLIAM TITTENSOR Since 1986 the prison population has more than doubled, and the average sentence has increased from 11 to 20 months Prisoners participating in educational programmes are 7.5 percentage points less likely to reoffend. Many prison workshops fail to provide any formal qualifications at all, limiting…
CP There is a very simple test for whether a country still has a free press: can a journalist ask an awkward question of a powerful person without the state getting involved? For four months, the answer at Scotland Yard was apparently no. Jack Grove, a reporter at Times Higher Education, did what journalists are…
Immigration: policy barnstorming RICHARD NORTH Amid the torrent of (half-baked) policy announcements from Burnham, one issue notably absent from his list has been any statement on immigration – specifically to dinghy illegals outbound from France. However, with Thursday’s highly publicised invasion of the Spanish enclave by (largely) Moroccan citizens – estimated at nearly 60,000 –…
With green subsidies now accounting for three quarters of the price of electricity, the cost of Net Zero to the public is much higher than politicians are willing to admit, say Professor Gordon Hughes and Dr Lee Moroney. GORDON HUGHES AND LEE MORONEY This is the 13th in a series of 13 articles challenging climate…
Reform back on top as Burnham bounce falls flat Labour slips to second place behind Farage’s party in new poll DOMINIC PENNA Reform UK has regained its lead over Labour in a YouGov poll that suggests the “Burnham bounce” has subsided. Andy Burnham’s popularity was credited with ending Reform’s long period of poll dominance last week…
