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2026 30
- The problem restated
- Beware the Jevons-Liebig trap
- AI is not a flyer
- An end to medieval economics
- Water as with power
- When is an emergency?
- A silent generational change
- A small example of contagion
- Your day without power
- No, oil prices are not inflationary
- A brief interlude
- The end of managed decline
- Overheated food prices
- A very British famine
- Economic entropy
- Energy myths
- The growth trap
- Stage two
- Good elections to lose
- The map is not the territory
- You can’t make a cup of tea
- A Great Reset of sorts
- A storm is coming
- No way out
- Supermarket slowdown
- The age of slop
- More thermodynamic drag
- An echo from a distant past
- What the right gets wrong
- Laughing stock
2025 48
- Gathering gloom
- A practical example
- Broken by design
- The end of circularity
- Debt slavery
- What does the government know?
- Thermodynamic drag
- Batteries not included
- A quiet revolution
- A return to coal
- And the people waved flags
- Planning for cascades
- Time to stop digging
- If only we’d read Soddy
- Only the timescale is uncertain
- So, what now?
- A victim of its own success
- Someone else’s job, someone else’s problem
- The sound of canaries choking
- Liebig’s Law applies
- The end of the road
- An inconvenient boomer truth
- Politicians mouthing words
- Smoke and mirrors
- Real illness, quack cure
- Peak oil returns
- The world ended in 1999
- The problem squared
- The two horsemen of the net zero apocalypse
- Okay Boomer…
- Who will be our Mussolini?
- That’s a mighty big assumption you’re making
- Two-part headline: always wrong!
- Neo-iconoclasm
- Economic chemotherapy
- But what is mad?
- Expect more of this
- Why did Hitler go to Stalingrad?
- The branch may break
- A small thing
- Putting climate alarmism away
- That time a sovereign state went bankrupt
- The mentality of 1915
- There’s a big reckoning coming
- A different land
- Clueless
- Basket loads of hubris
- When was growth?
2024 65
- Accelerating trends 2025
- It isn’t (only) Labour
- It was always about the oil
- A need for pragmatism (One – the end of the left)
- Inevitably…
- Can we live like Windy Miller?
- An act of malevolence?
- In the absence of capital
- An example of the problem
- The blind sadism of the do-gooders
- No acceptable alternative
- Or should it be FIVE Es and a C?
- Why is anyone surprised?
- The long and the short of it (Five: Devolution)
- The long and the short of it (Four: Power down)
- The long and the short of it (Three: a failure of communication)
- The long and the short of it (Two: The Queen’s gambit)
- The long and the short of it (One: the age of broke)
- Wales awakens
- The return of the cargo cult
- What would Xi do?
- Labour has already failed
- The real threat to our security
- Starmer’s 8th July problem
- One last corrosive act
- A revolution is brewing
- D-Day dummies
- No wonder you’re confused
- Nowhere to run
- WTF am I watching?
- Serving up a metaphor
- Killing St. George
- Broadly toxic
- A world without growth
- Playing seesaw
- Fall guy and (not so) useful idiot?
- What did they expect?
- Neoliberalism’s cleverest trick
- The ill-starred quest for a new electorate
- What was the 1960s?
- Was I wrong?
- Nappies are all that remain
- The enemy was always within
- Natural decline
- A balancing act of sorts
- Getting vacancies wrong
- Ending the social contract
- A fatally repeated misunderstanding
- When cities die
- Broken
- Beware these siren voices
- Or, to put it another way
- Politics meets economic uncertainty
- Blame it on the bourgeoisie
- Too big to comprehend
- That’s not it
- The official line
- A small and deceptive word
- When empires die
- Why I came to despise the BBC
- It doesn’t really work like that
- But profit (sort of) matters
- The real class war
- Thought shaping
- The myth of redundancy
2023 77
- 2024 – Losing the Mandate of Heaven
- Reverse Laffer
- In Brief: The energy death spiral grows; Another bad omen; Hobsons choice
- A sorry saga
- Embracing the collapse
- London’s falling
- Crisis begins
- Let’s join the dots for them
- These people aren’t serious
- The inevitability of decline
- Breakdown
- Rope-a-dope
- When the rain dance fails
- The art of polishing a turd
- The last days of old New Labour
- When they talk about the weather
- A good election to lose
- Why energy prices are deflationary
- HS2 – an artifact of a bygone age
- Much ado
- Blown out of the water
- In Brief: Lying by omission, punishing ourselves, hot air
- Welcome to the UK death spiral
- Trapped in the maze
- A one-way trip on Avenue 5
- Asleep at the wheel
- Yes, but why?
- A precarious balance of incompetence
- People who live in glass houses
- This is not a mirror
- It begins
- Wedded to the Orthodoxy
- An exercise in denial
- In Brief: Britain goes nuclear, Memory holed, Soft lead, Another class warrior
- Our Predicament Re-stated
- 7 Reasons why Britain will never recover
- Where fantasy crashes into reality
- Titan: a reflection of our insanity
- Bitter fruit
- This story is getting old
- There is always an alternative
- If only we had an island – or two
- In the Keynes zone
- The Ely paradox
- Why Just Stop Oil will win
- If you thought inflation was bad
- In Brief: Who would you assassinate, Political economy, The impotence of knowing
- Hidden in plain sight
- Welcome to the internet death spiral
- Next phase
- A crisis of governance
- The Cambo limit
- A new version of an old story
- Echoes of 1991
- A lack of humility but correct, for the wrong reasons
- Stagflation has begun
- Counterfeit World – Part Three – Hubris
- In Brief: A tough spring ahead. The end point of the Euro-dosh gravy train
- Counterfeit World – Part Two – Economics
- Counterfeit World – Part One – Fake News
- Time trap
- Of course we should hold them to account
- In Brief: There is no food shortage, A voluntary payment for fools, Turning point, Hancock hitjob.
- A matter of simple arithmetic
- A Reading from The Death Cult
- Paradise postponed
- The small price of sticking it to Putin
- More death spirals begin to spin
- Expect more of this
- A not-so-soft landing
- CBDC bait and switch
- The rise of the (fake) Meritechnocracy
- Green spin
- Shrinkflation at the pumps is just depressing
- An excuse made early
- The problem on a micro scale
- Running out of time
2022 86
- In Brief: Britain is broken
- In Brief: We are saved, If America Sneezes, Bleak Friday, Deflation and inflation
- The economic death spiral
- In Brief – Monday 5 December
- Can we reboot Britain?
- Collapse through five stages
- In Brief: By their excuses shall ye know them, The leopard couldn’t change its spots, Peak charity
- The danger of circular thinking
- Welcome to the oil death spiral
- The slaves’ revolt the elites can’t defeat
- In Brief: Collapse ahead, How bad will it be? Fracking banned? The other energy crisis
- This circle can’t be squared
- Central banks are stealing underpants
- In Brief: Frack off, A question of time and money, Nostalgia fails, How bad will it get?
- Your recession is in the post
- A very British coup
- Economic slack water
- In Brief: OPEC and out, Prices up – inflation down, Constructive ambiguity, The essential difference, Pet cemetery, Another fuel shortage, Spam fritter
- Beyond confidence
- History rhymes
- In Brief: Trading safety, An inflection point, The crisis of under-consumption, A reign of decline
- A question of value
- Since when did banks produce energy?
- Don’t underestimate the cheese lady
- In Brief: Growth of a sort, A question of cascades, Energy and government, That’s the point, Full circle
- A basket of bad ideas
- Net zero is dead – so what now?
- In Brief: Cost-push prices, It’s not just the price, Let’s talk about windfalls
- Nobody could have seen it coming
- The purpose of the system
- The self-destruction of yesterday’s common sense
- A different intermittency
- Fool, liar, or both?
- Can’t pay, won’t pay… and you can’t make us
- Telling lies to power
- There’s no going back now
- Green technocracy’s dirty secret
- In Brief: The peak of the economic roller coaster. A return to soup kitchens. Britain to be a third rate 1980s tribute act. Starmer the real loser.
- Those who the gods wish to destroy…
- The great unravelling
- A flaw seldom mentioned
- In Brief: Boris warning; Be careful what you wish for
- A contradiction at the heart
- Fruitless destruction
- Bigger than you can imagine
- A predicament in three parts
- Choose one bad option or get them all
- The New, New, New World Order
- Literal insanity
- In Brief: Unravelling begins, Strike out, Inflation deception, Losing critical mass, Last orders, Bad driving and weak government, Boris stew.
- Greens unlikely to survive the coming winter
- In Brief: The lamps are going out… Dear Keith, leave this well alone
- The complexity trap
- A story about bridges, progress, and hidden complexity
- In Brief: Hot air and false optimism
- The fake horsemen of the apocalypse
- Reality bites
- The age of dissonance
- In Brief: mid-term blues, the central bank myth
- The sound of distant violins…
- Economic train wreck ahead…
- Walking backward into the storm
- This time really is different
- For want of a nail…
- The revenge of the over 50s
- In Brief: Economic freefall, Peak foodbank, Electricity first, Fracking back, There were no clever people after all
- The case for nuclear war
- The church, the saints, and the unfolding crisis
- Time and time again…
- Island of fools
- Brexit Déjà vu
- Economic warfare is not a game for children
- Does Britain exist?
- Imperialism in bright green
- The devil is in the detail
- Mind the gap
- In Brief: Enemies of the people
- Days of reckoning
- Welcome to the age of cuts
- In Brief: Double distraction, The damage done, The future of green subsidies, The volatility problem
- In Brief: Greenwash peals, Peak oil demand of a kind, Real inflation, Which came first? Behind the jobs figures
- Britain’s Versailles moment
- Isn’t it time we heard from the bright green lobby?
- In Brief: Insensitive for other reasons; Johnson in trouble; Currency shock ahead
- It’s okay to look up
- Benighted Blair
2021 92
- In Brief: What we can expect in 2022
- This economy is going down
- The UK energy rationing plan
- In Brief: Fracking back, new weather warnings, lockdown by any other name
- The hidden recession of 2020
- In Brief: Supply crisis illustrated, Economic downturn ahead, Tory splits, What if…
- In Brief: Cambo crunch, Blue wall blues, Economic headwinds, And then all the chairs were facing backward
- Just don’t say you didn’t know
- In Brief: depression overload, mitigation (2), more safety traded for peace of mind, nationalisation in all but name
- Hogwash
- In Brief: Behind the job figures, Blind faith
- In Brief: Cash behind the sofa, Tory sleaze, Inevitable outcome, the cost of mitigation
- On health and shipping
- Beyond the green false deal
- Out of their depth, taxis and the backward march of Labour
- A red light on the dashboard
- Godwin, vapourware and a royal toilet seat
- When they say money, think energy
- Cognitive dissonance, carbon taxes and economic collapse
- Free markets and unfair elections
- Separating the self-flagellation from the greenhouse gas
- The climate war won’t work
- This is not 1997
- Yet another Tory wealth transfer
- Closer to the edge
- The problem in microcosm
- Is this peak gas?
- Feynman’s Law writ large
- What then are we to become?
- A crisis of affordability
- The march of folly
- Crisis by design
- A far from perfect storm
- Wrong for a different reason
- Can this leopard change its spots?
- Labour don’t have to win for the Tories to lose
- A problem shared is a problem doubled
- This isn’t going to work
- Cultural Appropriation of sorts
- Who determines prices?
- A matter of fortune
- Exergy-driven crisis
- Technocracy exposed
- A rising tide sinks all boats… eventually
- The limits of red alerts
- Crisis hiding in plain sight
- Running out of things to tax
- The only thing worse than an energy collapse
- When green gets real
- Ill-prepared for the coming shit storm
- Seeing the harness but not the horse
- Who pays?
- The limits of green idealism
- A surprisingly honest appraisal
- Who are you anyway?
- Climate change relegated
- Mere statistics
- The everything death spiral
- Another crisis you haven’t heard of…
- Both of these stories can’t be true
- How to ruin your economy
- You’ll own nothing and you’ll be f**!ing miserable
- When the bill falls due
- What if they’re both right?
- Are you still buying this?
- A crisis of profitability
- About those chickens…
- Signs of things to come
- A dangerous misunderstanding
- Beyond the auction of promises
- Let our woes begin…
- Reflecting on stupidity
- An unusual significance
- You can never go back
- Welcome to the supply-side shock
- When one cargo cult fails…
- Upsetting a delicate balance
- Want to save the High Street? Reform social security
- Slow fuse burning
- A zero sum game
- What if growth cannot return?
- Jevons in the fall
- Texas trip
- A failure of complexity
- London: the first global city to fail
- Economic mood swings
- The other side of the story
- Trading safety for peace of mind
- The Great train wreck
- Build Back Later
- Seeing happy faces in the clouds
- A faint echo of June 1942
2020 86
- When inflation refuses to appear
- It’s the third wave that sinks you
- This doesn’t end well
- The final curtain
- Something sinister?
- Guardian slips
- The Real Great Reset
- Road pricing guaranteed
- Why Britain desperately needs a big freeze
- Just a fairy tale to deceive ourselves
- The narrative problem after peak oil
- When the dam breaks
- The bleak mid-winter
- Let’s talk CROCI
- What we learn from history
- When payment falls due
- Britain has more than enough hot air
- Same old same old…
- Ripped off
- Information overload
- Not the answer we asked for
- And next time?
- Setting a new course
- A dark reflection of a bygone age
- It never rains but it pours
- When politicians call, ask only this
- What the pandemic really taught us about climate change
- Welcome to real Britain
- The new feudalism
- The disaster that led to New Labour
- Inflation at the top – stagnation at the bottom
- Why don’t lions chase mice?
- Failing to square the circle
- Why do we even know this?
- Levelling up a one-legged stool
- The symptom of our disease
- A taxing predicament
- The coming pensions pandemic
- Crackpot Cummings
- More shadow than substance
- The end of the technocracy
- A welcome Covid-19 casualty
- If…
- A rude awakening
- Just the beginning
- A brown new deal
- Unlockdowned
- Cummings concern
- Two money tricks
- Shall we play the cat and mouse game?
- When magic thinking blinds
- Behavioural errors
- Lockdown learned helplessness
- The myth of “the new normal”
- Fool me twice…
- An echo of yesteryear
- Lockdown: It’s the mood swings that bother me most
- A “Phoney War” of sorts
- This is all YOUR fault
- Is this sustainable?
- This is a lesson not an outcome
- Getting the economy wrong
- Enough will have to be good enough
- Liebig’s law writ large
- The post-viral economy
- All that is solid melts into air
- Panic! What panic?
- Because the economy, stupid!
- What are we planning for?
- Decline and Fall: The Brexit years
- Our second greatest shortcoming
- The last nail in the neoliberal coffin
- The disaster after the disaster
- Let’s be done with these tired old gods
- The strange death of the BBC
- The make believe future
- A little knowledge is a terrible thing
- The science is settled; the politics not so much
- Be careful what you wish for
- Today we’re mostly cooking on gas
- Mind the gap
- Ireland’s hypocrisy shames us all
- Labour needs much more than a change of leader
- A depressing end to 2019
- Energy behind the green façade
- An early warning of cascade
2019 86
- A matter of storage
- The left needs to give up hope
- The cold light of day
- This dismal election
- The end of civilisation will be painted green
- Beware the allure of green policies
- Narrative shift
- UK fracking banned until 13 December
- Boris’s Brexit Bear Trap
- Reaching that Wile E. Coyote moment
- An anthem for the post-industrial age
- The land of make believe
- A curious lack of imagination
- What Extinction Rebellion is getting wrong
- It became necessary to destroy the party to save it
- Peak oil demand is now
- System failure
- Between anger and bargaining
- The petty crime that kills the Green New Deal
- The Net Energy pincer
- Yellowhammer: a taste of collapse
- Masking the collapse
- Facing our inconvenient truths
- Second time farce
- They would say that, wouldn’t they?
- Goldsmiths kebab
- The shape of things to come
- Your enemy’s enemy is not your friend
- Inflation on Wall Street; deflation on Main Street
- There’s no Plan A
- Stagnation is the only thing keeping the lights on
- Toxic medicine
- Reliving old glories
- Winning requires more than your anger
- The art of painting lipstick on a pig
- Why do you hate renewables?
- That ‘Great Moderation’ moment again
- Democrat climate change fiasco not unexpected
- An object lesson in greenwashing
- The Bright Green deception
- The WWII battle you probably haven’t heard of
- Hitting green limits
- An abundance of flattery
- Let them ride electric bicycles
- Glimpsing the world beyond Brexit
- Two riders approach…
- Not according to plan
- D-Day accidents and misunderstandings
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Not so tactical voting
- When America sneezes…
- The end of May changes nothing
- The fourth industrial revolution in practice
- Divided down under
- Situating the appreciation
- Yellow vests at the ready everyone!
- Getting social mobility wrong
- What is this Climate Emergency you speak of?
- Trapped in Brexit’s web
- Let’s talk about Ebbw Vale
- Not so good news
- Jevons paradox is alive, well and in my local DIY store
- An unlikely simplification
- The (other) economic madness of the green new deal
- A tale of two grids
- The idea that broke the world
- The shadow without the substance
- Britain as Venezuela
- Solve this or you solve nothing (2)
- Solve this or you solve nothing (1)
- The green deal is hopium
- Brexit to last indefinitely
- Turning low-EROI oil into no-EROI oil
- Caught in the trawl net
- An unknown unknown
- Economic musical chairs
- A dangerous exercise in self-delusion
- For Britain’s energy future look at its railways
- Climate change denial (the other sort) is alive and well
- The end of the Eloi
- The other side of the retail apocalypse
- Fracking done… for now
- The real threat from AI
- A brief moment of clarity
- Puncturing the university Ponzi bubble
- Denting the denial
2018 138
- The problem in microcosm
- A matter of slow time
- Britain’s Christmas closing down sale
- The everything pin
- Drop the Brexit BS; this is serious
- Climbing Everest in high heels
- Fracking accounting discrepancy
- A people’s campaign
- The shape of things to come
- Be careful what you wish for
- No supply side route out of climate chaos
- The view from outside the bubble
- A dangerous exercise in self-delusion
- Heavy oil shock
- When fossil fuel subsidies are anything but
- Societies are too divided to combat climate change
- Tim Watkins talks to Sam Mitchell at Collapse Chronicles
- Brexit cascade crisis
- Of rats, cobras and electric vehicles
- An echo from the Victorian past
- Lest we forget
- The hopium of the people
- Climate change is not a political issue
- The Budget’s fundamental flaw
- The royal ribbon problem
- Cannibalism will begin before the collapse
- Fracked promises
- Endgame
- Technofantasia in action
- UK at greatest risk from oil’s twin peaks
- Doing the right thing for the wrong reason
- Online retail is the symptom not the disease
- UK poverty cleansing
- Could Trump and a hard Brexit be better for the environment?
- Enemy already within the gates
- BBC becomes the go-to source for tinfoil hat conspiracy theories
- Car sales down; economy to follow
- Solar road block
- A politician’s wrong answer
- Checkmate
- The three vortices of doom
- Lies, damned lies and media economic reporting
- Where good intentions lead
- Economic fake news
- Solving secondary problems first
- Corbyn more important than the end of the world
- Money trees are magical; energy trees are not
- It’s time to nail these neoliberal lies
- Another one bites the dust
- How the left enabled Hitler
- When Scientists do economics
- What productivity “puzzle?”
- Britain’s final energy gamble
- How gas (and wind power) spoiled your beer
- You’ve been Trumped
- The renewable road to extinction
- Universal Credit: more crackpot realism
- What is happening to the global elite?
- It’s employment Jim, but not as we know it
- Fracking’s fundamental flaw
- Brexit is the backstop
- We need a national energy company
- Faux outrage at a media whore
- Swansea tidal power: not so cheap or green
- Brexit: Millionaires jump ship
- The real cashless society
- UN urges caution on fracking
- Nobody invests in future savings
- The shape of things to come
- Britain’s Carillion moment
- Riding the bumpy road down
- Broadbent buries bad news
- A breadless circus
- Brexit: “crackpot realism” in action
- Centrica may not care
- UK economic collapse gathers pace
- Not so renewables
- What do bankers know about Brexit?
- Bullshit jobs: late complexity in action
- TSB Fiasco: a parable for our time
- Politics through a different lens
- Time to rethink monetary policy
- Schrödinger’s Brexit
- Getting their retaliation in first
- A question too obvious…
- Testing Goldilocks from two sides
- Japan tests the MacKay limit
- Wales does a reverse Robin Hood
- A curious lack of curiosity
- The fourth industrial revolution is cancelled
- How to be a vegan without giving up meat
- Recession guaranteed
- The view through a dark mirror
- For BBC, read Pravda
- Thinking the unthinkable
- Fracking because Russia
- What Marx got wrong changes everything
- Meanwhile back in the real world
- You know things are getting desperate when…
- The real climate change scam
- Dining at the virtual restaurant
- Blair’s bastard
- Big data BS
- Why I focus on the economics of fracking
- US finds its smoking gun… and it makes no difference
- UK energy policy puts lives at risk
- Economists baffled by UK snowstorm
- Of potholes, disasters and collapse
- Remind me again, what was Plan B?
- Economic failure
- Unexpected inflation in the bagging area
- The plastic trap
- Energy and the Enlightenment
- Fracking weakness exposed
- Trickle down extremism
- Running the stops: an ordinary abnormality
- P.T. Barnum does it again
- Supermarket slump
- Neoliberal environmentalism will not work
- US shale oil and the Seneca effect
- If we treated wages like inflation…
- UK government wary of fracking finances
- Britain’s retirement party begins
- How greenwashing works
- Redwash
- A circular economy of sorts
- How broadband got cheaper without you noticing
- Suing oil companies as futile as boycotting them
- Renewables outstripping infrastructure
- UK government ‘not serious’ about Brexit
- Exxon to sue public bodies over climate denial
- Brexit Britain to get a taste of peak oil
- Education, education, education is harming the economy
- The Potemkin economy
- Brexit home truths
- Big Oil’s plastic problem
- The neglected side of peak oil
- The year of the white swan
2017 197
- Norwegian oil and gas decline is bad news for Britain
- It’s time for climate scientists to shut the F*** up
- Brexit failure in sight
- Oil heads east – petrodollar goes south
- Why are greens so brown?
- UK energy vulnerability exposed
- The greenwash is beginning to peel
- Brexit: where the art of politics breaks down
- Where are the robots?
- Taking a Russian approach to climate change
- Arctic oil decline
- The age of intermittency
- The bad smell of UK shale gas
- UK government has a cruelty problem
- Technologies ‘green energy’ won’t be powering
- Thatcher’s legacy
- The Root of All Evil
- OBR is wrong… things are much worse
- More austerity please
- Riding the oil price rollercoaster
- Robbing Peter to pay Paul
- A very European Brexit
- Too much tobacco at the cancer summit
- The other side of Neoliberalism
- Weasel words on fracking protest costs
- A question of professional standards
- Green boom coming to an end
- Counting fracking chickens
- The cost of living increase is energy
- A tale of two economies
- UK economy is almost over
- UK energy death spiral accelerates
- Beer and the real economy
- Britain’s farmland to disappear
- Bahrain on the edge of collapse
- What value energy polls?
- Slamming on the brakes
- Civilisation and the fall
- Tribalism and climate change
- Brexit’s game of fools
- Helm review pours cold water on fracking
- Peaceful protest hits fracking where it hurts most
- A Neoliberal approach to energy
- UK government backtracks on fracking
- Can’t grow, won’t grow
- The difference between “can” and “can”
- IMF highlights serious banking risks
- Peak medicine
- A cautionary Brexit tale
- Energy cap – wrong answer, wrong problem
- The cure for wind
- Peak memory
- Headline oil finds getting smaller
- Fracking fears confirmed
- When your enemies insist you stay
- Royal Mail dispute is a harbinger of things to come
- UK economic woes continue
- The two faces of climate denial
- Scotland to ban fracking
- The early end of British coal
- IRA ghost may come to haunt the Tories
- Beware of Greeks bearing fake news
- Cool wind or hot air?
- UK Banks still vulnerable
- Fracking “technological breakthrough” is theft
- UK government delays fracking protections
- Human extinction guaranteed
- Who pays for North Sea decommissioning?
- Tory power grab for Celtic shale
- The £27bn EV tax giveaway the media ignored
- Let them eat cake
- Britain faces dangerous deflation
- The environment halts UK fracking
- Britain goes nuclear
- Tory donors face an unpalatable choice
- Now IS the time to talk about climate change
- The Overton window will leave us cold
- Maybe it is time to stop polishing
- UK Government axes climate change staff
- Forgive me for not cheering
- Green Valium for the masses
- Arctic oil doesn’t exist
- More than a flood disaster
- Harvey’s double irony
- UK faces years of depression
- Neoliberal training policy comes home to roost
- UK needs 7,000 specialist charging stations for its switch to electric cars
- When the party comes to an end
- Trump’s wall won’t stop the next refugee crisis
- Electric cars: more disruptive than we bargained for
- The ‘shale revolution’ ends with a bang
- Ten years on and we’re still repeating the big lie
- UK energy review is a danger to us all
- Energy is a bigger problem than Brexit
- Confidence: why it matters and why it shouldn’t
- Smart meter roll out dropped
- Corporate manslaughter – protecting the guilty
- Adding hot air to global warming
- Why “The Consciousness of Sheep”?
- Brexit is working out exactly as intended
- The distinct whiff of ministerial greenwash
- Smart meter roll out derailed
- US Government forced to face both ways on climate change
- Fracking companies in trouble as investment dries up
- Forget the headlines, we’re burning more fossil fuels than ever
- Let’s boycott these evil polluters
- Going pear-shaped: The collapse of our complex society goes mainstream
- They promised a small state. They gave us a weak state
- Falling Net Energy destroys fossil fuels *and* green energy
- Michal Kalecki: Populism, fascism and the failure of elites
- In Britain, unprofitable fracking is green energy
- Not so renewable Britain
- Hard Brexit is the best option for Remainers
- Burning £50 notes in front of the poor
- Never let a good crisis go to waste
- Science ‘v’ Economics criticisms work both ways
- Unprofitable fracking just became the only means of keeping Britain’s lights on
- Is Britain on the edge of disaster?
- The second Grenfell disaster has already begun
- Not the Brexit election Mrs May expected
- Cuadrilla responds to financial pressures
- Please stop chanting greenwash
- Britain’s coming food crisis
- How the Tories’ magic money tree works
- Third Energy seeks to expand
- Switzerland votes to shiver in the dark
- Too much green energy “musterbation”
- Fracking economics spells bad news for Britain
- The irony that gives the lie to “green” energy
- Severe storm damage ahead
- What could be worse than a ban for Britain’s frackers?
- Car finance – the next sub-prime crisis?
- National ‘fracking college’ fails to materialise
- Brexit will not cause a banking flight to Europe… its much worse than that!
- Is the UK economy plunging into recession?
- UK oil: selling worthless paper to chumps
- How secure is your smart meter?
- Peak green technology
- The choice you won’t be offered on 8 June
- A coal-free publicity stunt?
- British banking collapse predates Brexit
- National Grid not fit for electric vehicles
- Tories poised to destroy Britain’s energy industry
- The killer problems that politicians dare not even mention
- America’s bloody future
- Britain needs an energy Czar… or an energy miracle
- The gig economy is eating Britain from the inside
- India replaces Wales as a climate measure as the window for action closes
- Is it time to use the N-word again?
- Electric cars derailed
- United Airlines: “the singularity” in action
- Sinclair’s law in action
- Low demand and renewables accelerate Britain’s energy death spiral
- Pro-coal policy is central to Paris Agreement
- French nuclear firm bails out of UK projects
- The last act of a dying industry
- The EU considers ditching its energy targets
- Don’t bet on Britain’s oil future just yet
- Three quarters of UK shale gas cannot be recovered
- The dark shadow that still haunts banking
- Blame Brexit on the reality of the “fourth industrial revolution”
- That Scottish oil discovery in context
- Is it time for an alternative energy strategy?
- Ice melt and sea level rise accelerate
- Electric cars will not save the day
- Renewable Germany not so green after all
- UK energy predicament deepens
- Are cities the key to curbing climate change?
- Trump’s environmental reality check
- Brexit Britain muddling along
- The North Sea – how peak oil plays out in practice
- Oil experts predict economic woes ahead
- Fracking’s Achilles’ heel
- The shale oil paradox
- Not so smart meters
- Dying of (wilful) ignorance
- Big Oil: Whistling in the dark
- Biomass fuel is adding to global warming
- Fracking toxic spills under-reported
- Fracking boss hints at profitability concerns
- Fermi’s Paradox is alive and well… and that is bad news for all of us
- UK energy strategy on the edge
- Oil and gas discoveries hit rock bottom
- Our convenient lie
- What the death of Goldilocks looks like in practice
- Fracking is cheap… as long as we don’t actually do it
- The elephant that killed Western democracy
- This is what climate change looks like
- Ineos threatens National Trust over fracking access
- US Energy companies in retreat
- No, Russia isn’t funding anti-fracking groups
- The Trump Test
- Are the security services going to assassinate Trump?
- Exxon laughs in the face of climate campaigners
- Welcome to the permanent depression
- Michael Gove had a point
- When “Green” energy is a bad thing
2016 369
- Corporate welfare goes green
- The fall of the American Empire
- What shampoo tells us about the economy
- Setting up the Green Movement to take the blame
- The sinister truth behind smart meters
- Energy bailouts – the next financial scandal?
- Decommissioning: the looming disaster in the North Sea
- New publications from the Consciousness of Sheep
- Trump’s energy policy may not be as bad as you think
- Economic woes have an environmental bright side
- French nuclear safety issues highlight energy vulnerability
- Tories to Trump Corbyn
- The Trump policy that should terrify the left
- How we pay for fracking three times over
- UK government energy greenwash
- The squeezed middle lose out in the gig economy
- UK Government climate policy based on lies and science fiction technologies
- Scottish fracking argument reveals UK’s energy problem
- Public support for fracking at an all-time low
- US researchers accidentally discover an ethanol battery
- The zombie apocalypse coming to an economy near you
- Our best efforts on climate change will not be enough
- The very worst US fracking practice of all arrives in the UK
- UK economy going cashless… in the worst possible way
- National Grid keeps the lights on; but at what cost?
- North Sea oil spills increase
- G20 warns against right-wing populism
- A third of us now work in the “gig economy”
- What a 1987 campaign can tell us about Trump and Brexit
- UK energy in transition
- IMF calls for government action for growth
- Is the ‘gig economy’ about to crash?
- Conventional oil economics deal another blow to fracking
- Scientists routinely lie about climate change
- Another climate record falls – and this time its permanent
- Fighting climate change will be harder than fighting a world war
- Global warming limit could be passed within a decade
- Grangemouth fracking terminal – vision of the future or waste of money?
- Does anyone still trust energy ratings?
- Generating electricity from carbon capture technology
- France bans plastic spoons
- Hinkley Point C is a lousy deal… in so many words
- Cameron lied about fracking
- A monument to human stupidity
- The other inconvenient truth
- Scotland to develop world’s first large tidal energy scheme
- MPs urge UK to adopt carbon capture and storage
- Atlantic air travel to set pulses racing
- Italy on the verge of destroying the Euro
- Ministers should turn to the Tory press for an energy policy
- Sinister “reassurances” in banking and energy
- US sea level rise – where the “Three E’s” of our predicament collide
- Fracking undermines public health… even before it gets the go-ahead
- Climate change – all talk but little action
- May’s empty fracking bribes are not worth the risk
- Forget GDP – it is per capita GDP that indicates our demise
- UK energy crisis – right diagnosis; wrong prescription
- The chink in the left’s climate change armour?
- Doing the same thing in the hope of a different outcome
- UK Government urged to address the looming energy crunch
- Why does this brewer want higher oil prices?
- Trump more progressive than UK government on fracking?
- More woes for the oil industry
- The two words that will put Donald trump in the White House
- Pokemon-GO provides a lesson in energy misuse
- Renewable energy overtakes coal and oil
- UK to provide more encouragement for fracking
- Siberia feels the earth move
- Forget Brexit – banking looks set to kill the EU dream
- Global climate records continue to break
- The future of Big Oil is… er… gas and renewables
- UK Government’s Green Deal is an ‘abysmal’ failure
- A chink of light in an otherwise dark decision?
- Coming to an estuary near you… a new kind of green energy
- US fracking provides the lowest cost oil on earth (but still not low enough)
- Britain at risk of lock-in and a cascading collapse
- Cloud changes could spell bad news
- Corporate energy generation – the next threat to our economy?
- Next Deepwater Horizon only a matter of time
- Germany introduces limits on green energy
- The UK energy Ponzi scheme
- The global economy has stopped passing go!
- The rich are not immune from climate change
- The demographic wave that may kill the oil industry
- Fracking incompatible with climate targets
- Why electric cars won’t save our way of life
- Economists’ blind spot to Britain’s biggest danger
- How to mislead gullible fracking investors
- Energy chiefs call for action on the death spiral
- UK government will miss its own climate targets
- Italy next in the slow motion Eurozone train crash
- UK economy was collapsing prior to Brexit referendum
- The end of the market?
- Brexit in context
- G20 fossil fuels failure
- More oil price volatility
- The end of the university dream?
- Paris agreement guarantees runaway global warming
- Brexit brought forward Britain’s next banking crash
- Falling pound could wreck the UK economy
- How much electricity does the internet use?
- Dutch experience rings alarm bells for UK energy policy
- Britain’s energy infrastructure at risk from Brexit
- Arctic plant carbon sequestration may be over-estimated
- Here’s something much more serious than Brexit
- Why eating bugs is a really bad idea
- Self-styled “Frack Master” charged with multi-million dollar fraud
- The USA is already in recession
- Germany bans fracking
- Economists don’t know this: waste heat adds to global warming
- Events 94 million years ago suggest a dangerous future
- Laboratory sued over fake fracking water tests
- UK economic failure runs much deeper than Brexit
- Fracking’s expensive toxic water problem
- Did the banks kill the North Sea?
- Energy experts doubt Paris agreements can be met
- Bankrupt coal company bankrolled climate change denial
- Slowing banking sector sheds jobs
- Public on the hook for failing energy companies
- Europe is turning Japanese
- Scientist sued over fraudulent fracking methane tests
- When the golden goose stops laying
- Big oil laughs in the face of green investor concerns
- Decommissioning – the next disaster in the North Sea?
- Death by Jevons paradox
- How smart meters could save money and help cut emissions
- Why “technically possible” is not the same as “practical”
- Climate change is incompatible with globalisation
- Yet more cuts to clean energy subsidies
- Could the stalling US economy propel Trump into the White House?
- German economy on the edge
- The downside of renewable ‘energy too cheap to meter’
- Third Energy has no idea if fracking is viable in North Yorkshire
- Another big flaw in the economics of fracking
- Want to cut carbon emissions? Take the stairs!
- National Grid faces funding crisis
- Just in case you thought the banking crisis was over…
- G7 – too little too late for the environment
- Trump’s energy policy is nonsensical
- Is Big Oil becoming financialised?
- Don’t bet on fracking just yet
- Trump to pull out of the Paris Agreement
- Getting their excuses in early
- The USA has no good choices in November
- Fracking is a dangerous fantasy
- UK Housing slowdown suggests troubled times ahead
- The Fracking Ponzi gathers pace
- Trump’s two faces on climate change
- Britain only average on climate change and renewables
- How you know you’re in an energy crisis
- Business unconcerned with Brexit, but worried about the UK economy
- UK to secure 10% of its power from offshore wind
- Could we turn trains into batteries?
- How would you prefer your collapse?
- What – exactly – are the proponents of renewable energy trying to tell us?
- UK bank reforms are no reforms at all
- Saudi financial collapse could push oil down to $25 per barrel
- New Orleans is sinking
- Osborne’s competence questioned as UK economy stalls
- A new way to settle old climate arguments
- Our climate future looks bleak
- Is energy about to topple the shadow banking sector?
- It’s NOT the economy, stupid!
- UK banking reform hits the wrong target
- Global temperatures heated up again in April
- Renewables not growing fast enough to wean us off fossil fuels
- Oil and Gas giants go renewable
- Britain needs a rethink on nuclear energy
- UK Government too fixated on Brexit
- Trump appoints pro-fracking/anti-environment energy advisor
- Coal free electricity days are great… if you are happy with a £12,175 bill!
- Third Energy fracking plan to be approved
- UK Energy Act fails to win favour with industry
- Is the UK ready for an energy transition?
- Pension funds exercise their energy muscle
- Energy firms are abandoning the Arctic
- UK electricity grid crashed on Monday
- France discusses shale gas import ban
- Universal basic income enters the mainstream
- Mars turns green
- Global carbon threshold reached
- What happens when the grid goes down?
- Climate change is here and now
- Hey, where did that island go?
- Radioactive waste legacy of fracking
- Climate-related kidney disease increases
- Bad energy news buried
- When Rome burned, Nero set up a review
- Could the Philippines do a reverse TPP/TTIP?
- Blame it on Brexit!
- Sainsbury’s takes action over UK energy crunch
- No need to worry about saving the planet
- US economy stalls
- Water will get us in the end
- UK bank infrastructure on the verge of collapse
- How climate change could ruin productivity
- Ocean oxygen levels are falling
- Ofgem shares good and bad news on UK energy mix
- UK frackers still face a barrage of regulation
- Climate change v jobs
- No Easy Answers
- Rock project highlights Carbon Capture and Storage flaw
- Urban poor miss out on community energy
- Support for renewables grows as energy security and climate concerns increase
- Study finds alarming Amazon carbon release
- Wales’ Politicians must act on 2 gigawatt energy loss
- Massive energy storage “batteries” have already been deployed!
- Has the oil glut morphed into something else?
- Climate change comes home to Europe
- Burning river highlights need to follow the precautionary principle
- Renewable energy bankruptcies begin
- Half of the world’s oil has vanished… and the remaining half is expensive
- British banks in worst state since 2008
- Central bank policies are killing the economy
- Climate denial is about privilege
- Corporate America backs climate action
- Centrica u-turns on renewables
- The real immigrant crisis
- More storm clouds in the North Sea
- Is it time to drop GDP?
- MPs warn about the limits to growth
- Who should lead the fight against climate change?
- The countries with more than 80% renewables… Not what you expected
- Europe should leave TBTF banks to their fate
- Restructure or throw our children under a bus
- Former energy CEO says we face an energy crisis before an energy revolution
- The end of coal?
- US government and energy companies knew about global warming 50 years ago
- When fracking isn’t fracking
- Want to see something really scary?
- Can we enforce the Paris agreement?
- A new approach to plastics
- World leaders are clueless on climate change
- Could blockchain technology boost renewables?
- A Banquet of Consequences: the cost of war threatens us all
- US banking sector faces a miserable 2016
- Saudi Arabia is about to test western free market economics
- Another exercise in energy magic thinking
- This looks a lot like 1971… at least the music was good, wasn’t it?
- Is it time for progressive VAT on energy?
- Rain panels could close the baseload gap
- Climate change is shifting the poles… but we are not sure why
- Energy volatility signals the death of the fossil fuel economy
- The clouds predict a climate catastrophe
- Ditching Hinkley C could save £40bn
- Without cheap energy, Britain is finished
- Electric car sales are up… but don’t get too excited
- Janet Yellen’s six month tightrope walk
- Economists still clueless over low oil prices
- EU energy policy misses the mark
- Are alien energy cubes the answer to climate change?
- Do Chester’s fracking sites give the lie to our shale gas future?
- Saudi Arabia uses informal sanctions to curb Iranian oil
- Climate change will destroy £18tn worldwide
- Tata Steel is the tip of an energy iceberg for the UK government
- California highlights imported electricity cost problem
- Meanwhile in a quiet corner of the Brexit debate
- Now the Antarctic ice is melting faster
- Getting 2008 and 2016 wrong
- Could anything be worse than our corrupt banking system?
- Bitcoin may not be the positive force we wanted
- The deficit Osborne does not want you to see
- Are we too focused on carbon emissions?
- Oil companies face a shareholder revolt
- Grangemouth open for fracking
- UK does the right thing… at the wrong time!
- Could “sea eggs” solve our energy storage problem?
- Demand for electric cars could crash the Grid
- More bad news in the North Sea
- The next generation of climate change disputes
- The NHS is unprepared for climate change
- Housing affordability divide widens
- The gig economy is pretty much Uber
- Oil’s Minsky Moment… or something a lot worse?
- Rooftop solar could provide 40 percent of US electricity
- 2016 Arctic sea ice maximum was the lowest on record
- Saudi Arabia seeks to lock-in market share
- Could Fracking affect insurance prices?
- UK oil production rises… for now
- What a college graduate could tell economists about the price of oil
- Andrea Leadsom highlights Britain’s energy predicament
- What Alaska can teach the UK about peak oil
- Did Amber Rudd give the game away over Brexit?
- Russia/OPEC “oil freeze” is meaningless
- Scotland charts UK route to a carbon-free economy
- Let’s do away with Westminster for good
- Corporate energy ratings cannot be trusted
- Benefits of climate change… an epitaph for human stupidity?
- The global carbonisation experiment gathers pace
- 2015 saw record-breaking climate change
- UK could save money by paying us to use less energy
- Chinese global warming increases but little action is likely
- UK tech renaissance or DotCom 2.0?
- Is a Chinese banking crash imminent?
- Reality hits back
- How will we get around in a future without petroleum?
- Water – where energy and environment meet
- It’s a solar-powered airport! What’s not to like?
- Russia to hit peak oil in 2020
- UK Budget: how ‘peak oil’ plays out in practice
- Why climate change could be about to get a lot worse
- A Tory MP finally gets energy… sort of
- The inevitable cost of running government like a business
- Climate-related food shortages underestimated
- February 2016 was the hottest month on record
- Oil crash risks a multi-billion dollar debt crisis
- Osborne ‘misled’ customers on energy savings
- CEO bonuses are fuelling the oil glut
- Carbon dioxide emissions shouldn’t be the main focus for agriculture
- Does Britain have a savings crisis or a credit crisis?
- Carbon farming can address climate change
- European banks still too big to fail
- It’s one-and-a-half cheers for Welsh energy policy
- Global warming is accelerating
- What do chickens, hydrogen cars and the smart grid have in common?
- Big Six energy companies feel the heat
- Is banking about to go supernova?
- Oil Prices to fall again… why you should be worried
- Satellite-based methane study deals another blow to UK energy policy
- What politicians could learn from a chemist about banking fraud
- The curse of climate change
- UK energy U-turn cost £3.14bn
- The flaw in Britain’s dash for gas
- UK Government hits panic button over energy security
- Could electric cars kill the UK economy?
- What have nuclear power, tidal barrages, hydroelectric storage and solar farms got in common?
- The emotional cost of climate change
- Frackers look to R&D to escape the misery
- Iran pours cold water on world oil freeze deal
- Traffic damage amounts to a public subsidy for fracking
- Banking layoffs gather pace
- UK Government is banking on global warming to keep the lights on
- A lesson in unforeseen consequences
- Clueless in Shanghai
- French solar roads are about corporate handouts not green energy
- Bill Gates to take over from Mystic Meg
- The too big to fail banks are up to their old tricks again
- Climate change causes fish migrations
- EDF calls for urgent reform of EU energy market
- Saudi Arabia’s chest-beating is unconvincing
- Politics determines climate change belief… but not climate action
- The end of business as usual?
- Will US fracking take up the slack?
- Why is Britain embracing third world energy status?
- Don’t rush out to buy that new car just yet…
- BP blames governments over CO2 targets
- Big oil sees declining reserves for the first time in 20 years
- Global Wind Energy Capacity Just Overtook Nuclear
- A gloomy week ahead for the “oil industry’s Davos”
- Europe Follows Amber Rudd on a Dash for Gas… but at what cost?
- Banks Still Too Big to Fail
- Nuclear Power Use-By Date Extension
- The Myth of the 4th Industrial Revolution
- Is Organic Farming Our Best Response to Climate Change?
- Former Minister Raises Energy Security Concerns
- BP: COP21 will not meet 2 degree climate target
- Prepare for Atlantic flight delays… and higher prices
- Public services ill-prepared for climate change
- Why low oil prices are bad for you
- Not all trees are equal at curbing climate change
- It’s lights out for the UK
- English floods “were the result of climate change”
- Even more energy insanity from Amber Rudd
- Core industries helped to shed skilled workers
- Paris climate deal to cost far more
- Guess who just called time on Tory energy policies…
- No easy answers
- What US fracking could learn from Welsh coal
- Will 2016 be the year of “the bigger fool than me”?
2015 11
- Understanding “soft corruption”… and why we should care
- UK Government threatens to bomb the Greenland Icecap
- Britain still thinks it’s a great power – but it isn’t
- The Madness of Amber Rudd
- Why the Paris climate talks are doomed to failure, like all the others
- Fracking Scottish independence to oblivion?
- The Economics that George Osborne wants to hide
- The UK’s next crisis?
- Two States – One Political Crisis
- Whatever your views on climate change, this is INSANE!
- Volkswagen, emissions and diminishing returns