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It’s the Gas, Not the Tax: Why the Conservative Cheap Power Plan Won’t Lower Bills
The Conservative Cheap Power Plan cuts taxes off the energy bill but never touches what makes British power expensive: gas sets the marginal price, and no tax cut changes that. Scrapping the carbon tax also invites an EU carbon tariff, while a three-year VAT freeze is a sticking plaster, not a cure.
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To Be Human, Andrew Must First Agree to Die
What makes a being a person? Bicentennial Man answers that mortality, not ability, is what earns recognition, a question that only sharpens in the age of AI.
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The ‘Economy Wreckers’ Who Fixed the Sky
Ozone, London smog, Hong Kong’s roadside air: each gain was forced through by people branded ‘economy wreckers’. The economy never broke.
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Red Button or Blue: A Coordination Trap Dressed as a Morality Test
The viral red-or-blue-button question is not a morality test. It is a coordination problem whose rules load every risk onto those willing to cooperate.
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Cheap Coal, Costly Labour: Why the Industrial Revolution Began in Britain and Nowhere Else
Britain was neither the largest nor the most sophisticated society of the eighteenth century, yet industrialisation began there. The reason was not genius but arithmetic: cheap coal, costly labour, and a web of institutions that made machines pay.
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The Primary Energy Fallacy: We Never Had to Replace That Much
Fossil fuels are 80% of world energy, but that figure counts primary energy, two-thirds of it lost as waste heat. Measured in useful terms, the transition is a far smaller task than it looks.
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The Little-Known Hong Kong-Born Astronaut, Diplomat, Actor, Presenter and Entrepreneur
Hong Kong’s global character was not only built through finance and trade. It also appeared in the lives of people born there who later became an Apollo astronaut, a British diplomat, an actor, a BBC presenter and a technology entrepreneur.
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Across the Bridge, Then Pull It Up: Why New Migrants Turn Against Migration
Some of the fiercest opponents of immigration are recent migrants themselves. This is less hypocrisy than positioning: what shapes attitude is not where one comes from, but where one stands in the queue, and how directly one competes with later arrivals for the same jobs and resources. Those who have crossed the bridge are often…
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HS2 vs the Chūō Shinkansen: Twice the Money, Not Even Half the Railway
Britain’s HS2 will cost more than twice as much as Japan’s Chūō Shinkansen, yet deliver a shorter, slower, hollowed-out railway. The gap is not about geology or inflation. It is about planning rules, NIMBYism, shifting specifications and a missing institution for delivering megaprojects.
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From Thatcher to Badenoch: How the Conservatives Dismantled Their Own Climate Legacy
Thatcher made Britain a climate leader. May wrote net zero into law. Today’s Conservative Party calls the same science “fantasy”, leans on oil-lobby figures, and urges more North Sea drilling. What changed is not the science. It is the party itself.