The Truss govt is calamitously ill-advised on green technologies. Britain is in danger of being left behind in the global race for dominance of 21st Century clean tech, sidelined in the biggest economic growth story of our times.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… Green energy ought to tick every Conservative box.
It is cheaper;
it is more secure;
it creates jobs in poor places;
it is a macroeconomic accelerant;
it conserves the planet we inherited;
it is supported by 68% of Tory voters.
Why leave another open goal for Labour?

This inquiry into the PM is not consistent with natural justice
The House of Commons Privileges Committee should remember a 25 year-old precedent. Unintentionally misleading statements are not contempt.

✍🏻 Vernon Bogdanor

telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/1… … Mr Johnson now faces a 3rd inquiry from the cross-party Commons Privileges Committee for allegedly misleading Parliament when he declared that no parties were held at No 10 and that lockdown rules were followed.

A vindictive inquiry into the outgoing Prime Minister
The whole procedure seems to have a dubious legal and constitutional basis, and it seems otiose now that Boris Johnson has stepped aside

Telegraph View

telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2022/0… … not content with forcing Mr Johnson from No 10, there is an effort under way to remove him from the HoC as well via an inquiry by the Committee of Privileges into whether he was in contempt of Parliament when he insisted he had not breached the lockdown measures.

Britain will soon have a glut of cheap power, and world-leading batteries to store it. Trailblazing Britain is leading the most ambitious rollout of offshore wind in the world.
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️AEP Today’s electricity price shock is the last crisis of the old order. Britain will soon have far more power at times of peak production than it can absorb. The logistical headache will be abundance.

The pro-Brussels establishment is painting Brexit as an economic disaster to reverse it telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… A false story of Brexit economic failure is pushed by a large part of the Westminster media, amplified across the world as an article of faith: the UK has underperformed ruinously since the Ref, lagging under every metric, plagued by a collapse of trade, investment, and sterling.

#Polio is spreading in Britain for the first time in nearly 40 years, health officials have warned, as they declared a national incident and urged people to make sure they are vaccinated. Britain was proclaimed polio-free in 2003 and the last wild case was detected in 1984. The current outbreak is the first transmission event since the 1980s. The UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) announced that a vaccine-derived polio virus had been detected in sewage from North and East London in Feb and April, suggesting spread between individuals.

Boris' speech to the 1922 Committee.

Graham, many thanks for convening this meeting, and I have to tell you I am glad that this vote is finally taking place because tonight, we have a chance to end the media-driven focus on the leadership of the Conservative Party. And if you will give me your support tonight, we have the chance to stop talking about ourselves and start talking exclusively about what we are doing for the people of this country.

Party chairman @OliverDowden has been leading efforts behind the scenes to shore up support amongst undeclared MPs by asking all senior staff at CCHQ to help with their networks.
Thanks, Oliver! Thousands of supportive emails have come in over this weekend alone - with the vast majority supportive of the PM. Mr Dowden has tasked senior staff to whip Association Chairmen and key voluntary figures as many will be talking to their MPs ahead of the vote.

Boris Johnson's secret plan to wrest Ukraine from Russia and the EU: the European Commonwealth. London proposes a new system of political, economic and military agreements — alternative to the EU — between countries wary of Brussels and Russia.

Source:
corriere.it/economia/finan… The most high-profile evening for the EU was scheduled for Tuesday in Davos. At the tables of a secluded hall of the Congress Center sat three prime ministers of the Union — of Belgium, Greece and Spain — the president of the European central bank Christine Lagarde ...

How Boris gathered the ‘ammunition’ to get the Chancellor to open his wallet. The PM brought in 4 top economists: they argued against the Treasury’s view that any increase in public spending would increase inflation.

#PeoplePM

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Ever since Sunak delivered his underwhelming Spring Statement in March, Boris has been searching for a way to make the Chancellor reopen his wallet and he found a group of leading economists that privately backed fresh spending to ease the cost of living crisis.

There’s nothing wrong with drinking at work. Churchill did it all along. But that, to the new Puritans, is the greater sin.

✍🏻 William Sitwell (food critic)

telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/2… There were times when drinking in Whitehall was virtually compulsory. Winston Churchill was a fairly big sipper, reputed to consume two bottles of Pol Roger per day. Indeed records of his invoices are now treasured by Pol Roger, which later named a cuvée after him.

The narrative / The reality
#AfterSueGrayReport The birthday party: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…

Russian oil ban is 'on the table' says Boris, as he vows to increase Britain's fossil fuel production in a bid to cut reliance on the Putin regime.

telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… The Govt is likely to open a new round of North Sea exploration licences this year as part of an energy strategy to be unveiled in the coming days that aims to bolster long-term domestic supplies.

Putin never believed the West would cut off Russian oil: that was a grave mistake. The EU is fortifying itself with remarkable speed for a new era of 'zero gas' from Russia.

✍️🏼 AEP

telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… A western oil embargo against Russia raises the geostrategic stakes exponentially. What was almost unthinkable last week looks almost unstoppable this week. Ukrainian resistance and outraged opinion in the democracies have changed the war and what the West is prepared to do.

‘Strong resistance’ means Russian advance in Ukraine has failed its initial objectives, say Western officials. Fighting around key cities intensifies as UK minister for the Armed Forces says ‘Putin may well have bitten off more than he can chew’ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… The Russian advance in Ukraine has stalled and achieved none of its first-day objectives. The “strong resistance” put up by Ukrainian forces across the country has meant only limited gains have been made by the invading troops, Western security officials told The Telegraph.

Greater Russia is now a full-spectrum commodity superpower, less vulnerable to sanctions than Europe itself. The West’s pain threshold is about to be tested. Fortress Russia will endure this contest of self-reliance more stoically than Europe.

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telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… In a matter of hours, the world order has turned drastically less favourable for western democracies.
Putin’s seizure of Ukraine elevates Russia into a full-spectrum commodity superpower, adding leverage over global grain supply to existing strategic depth in energy and metals.

Imperial Russia has called the West’s bluff. There is an awful lot of land in Europe that a Russian imperialist might define as being “historically Russia”. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/2… Putin made plain how he sees the world. Ukraine — he declared — is made up of “what was historically Russia”, its claim to statehood has never been legitimate. The nationhood of a country that voted by >90% to become independent after the USSR fall, is airbrushed out of history.

Putin wouldn't be invading if Trump were still in the White House. The enemies of the west see this period as a window of opportunity within which to undermine and erode the US leadership.
— Nile Gardiner
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/2… President Trump was derided by his political opponents as an isolationist, soft on strongmen autocrats like Putin. The Left painted him as a populist who undermined US alliances while turning a blind eye to human rights abuses by dictator regimes.

Putin controls the supply chain of western technology, so who is bluffing? Russia has the power to hobble key industries in the US and Europe by restricting supplies of metals

✍️🏼 AEP
telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… The wishful thinking has begun. Core Europe is already persuading itself that Putin will be sated with Donetsk and Luhansk, allowing EU companies to keep selling Gucci bags and BMWs to Russia in exchange for commodities – after a stern lecture on international law, of course.

The impending war in Ukraine has exposed not just the impotence and shameful appeasement mindset of EU’s ruling elites in Brussels, Berlin and Paris. It has also sharply illustrated the tragic decline of American leadership on the world stage. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/2… It is no coincidence that Putin has mobilised more than 150,000 Russian troops on Ukraine’s borders while Biden is in the White House. Clearly Putin views Biden as a pushover, a weak-kneed president that has no clear strategic vision for the US in the global arena

We must not murder the recovery: inflation will soon take care of itself.
✍️🏼 AEP
telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… Central bankers were too late in 2021 but the worst they could make in 2022 is to swing suddenly from loose money to tight money, sending Western economies clattering into recession. You do not correct one policy error by committing the opposite policy error.