Tag: Energy

  • China Isn’t Dumping US Debt — It’s Quietly Rewiring the System

    There’s a narrative doing the rounds that China is “dumping” US Treasuries and preparing for some kind of financial war. It’s dramatic. It gets clicks. It’s also mostly wrong. But underneath it, there is something real happening — and it matters. China’s holdings of US Treasuries have fallen from around $1.3 trillion in 2013 to…

  • Margaret Thatcher and the Comfort of Relief

    Part I: – What Changed – and Why It Felt Right Britain did not arrive at the end of the 1970s on the brink of collapse. It arrived tired, frustrated, and increasingly doubtful of itself. Inflation had become part of everyday life, eroding wages in ways that were visible week by week rather than year…

  • The Long Clock and the Short Clock: Why Power Is Quietly Shifting

    There is a divide shaping the modern world that most voters sense but rarely see explained clearly. It is not left versus right, democracy versus dictatorship, or even East versus West. It is far more basic than that. Some political systems are allowed to think in decades. Others are trapped thinking in election cycles. Once…

  • Britain: A Multi-Trillion-Pound Business Run by Amateurs

    How a once-serious nation became a masterclass in short-termism and mismanagement Introduction — Systemic, Cross-Party Failure The UK’s political crisis isn’t ideological — it’s operational. Every major party has taken turns running the country, and every one of them has left the same underlying problems untouched. The system isn’t failing because the “wrong team” won;…

  • The Productive Role of Bubbles

    There is a repeated pattern in every major technology cycle. A new capability emerges. A small group sees the direction early. Investment accelerates at a speed that looks irrational. Companies hire, build, and expand faster than the market can justify. Then the cycle turns, confidence breaks, and the market calls the whole thing a mistake.…

  • Blown Away by Government Madness

    You couldn’t make it up. The government that blew with the public wind—shouting about the race to renewables, patting itself on the back for wind energy leadership—somehow forgot one minor detail: You can’t just generate power. You need to move it. That’s the absurdity we’re now paying for. Scotland, blessed with powerful winds and a…

  • Unlocking the Potential of Not-for-Profit Companies – Addressing the Capital Challenge through State Support

    In the pursuit of a more equitable and compassionate society, the establishment of “not-for-profit companies” to provide essential services has gained traction as a transformative approach. These entities prioritize public welfare over profits, ensuring that healthcare, education, water supply, public transport, and energy distribution remain accessible and affordable to all citizens. However, the challenge of…

  • The largesse of British Gas and it’s near £1bn six month proffit

    I recently posted on Facebook about BG and it’s 900% increase in profits and received some pushback about why I thought it was unreasonable, here’s my reply – Firstly I do not blame BG for this in anyway, they are a private company with a sole aim of maximising returns for their shareholders, it is…

  • It’s time for a new look at energy in the UK.

    We’ve all seen that Centrica made a fortune over the last six months, who knows where that proffit really came from although the shareholder report gives a good idea and indicates some substantial foreign earnings BUT, British Gas part of Centrica and it’s UK subsidiary that supplies many of us also made just short of…