The Uxbridge Fallacy: How the UK’s political consensus on Net Zero was shattered
Twixmas special podcast time! Walk off yesterday's excesses while listening to my exposition on why voters in the leafy North West London suburb of Uxbridge...
Anti-Net Zero ain’t pro-industry…
Dec 17, 2025
Earlier this week, I listened to a number of political journalists on Times Radio mull over an annoucement from UK Leader of the Opposition Kemi...
The Year in Sustainability 2025 with Lucy Siegle and James Murray
Dec 12, 2025
So, as 2025 draws to a close, was the year about the boom in clean energy or the long scream into the void of Net...
The Budget and the Low Carbon Transition
Dec 1, 2025
Last week's UK Budget wasn't half as grim as many expected so, almost inevitably, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is getting in the neck for allegedly exaggerating...
COP30: Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, but Christmas comes anyway
Nov 24, 2025
So, another COP, another few steps forward but skirting carefully around the elephant in the room: the burning of fossil fuels. A huge effort by...
Individual versus system change for Sustainability
Oct 22, 2025
I recently took part in a debate on LinkedIn triggered by a statement by new UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski that while he follows...
Are the Unions getting in the way of the energy transition?
Oct 13, 2025
Big splash in the Guardian today as a trial blended 2% green hydrogen into the gas grid to feed a gas-fired power station. Green hydrogen,...
Analysis: Sustainability in the UK Party Leaders’ Conference Speeches
Oct 8, 2025
It's that time of year again when the party faithful of each of the UK's political parties trek to a soulless conference centre, pull on...
Reaction to Ed Miliband’s Conference Speech on Net Zero
Oct 1, 2025
Ed Miliband, the UK's Energy and Net Zero Secretary, has become a whipping boy for both ends of the political spectrum. The right attack him...
Thoughts on the UK Green Party Leadership Election
Sep 3, 2025
In 2016 I was interviewed by a Newcastle University student for his final year dissertation. We got talking politics as he was the chair of...