By Sir John Redwood on May 22, 2025 Even the Bank of England and Treasury saw this latest inflation surge coming. They should have as government caused most of it. They put up regulated prices of

Save our steel industry By johnredwood on April 8, 2025 It is rumoured the government decided to renegotiate the Scunthorpe deal they inherited to close the blast furnaces and subsidise an electric

Energy is doing huge damage to this government By johnredwood on September 15, 2024 It is difficult to comprehend the stupidity of this government. Dear energy and inflation helped bring down the

By johnredwood on June 22, 2024 The Supreme Court judgement which says anyone wishing to extract oil and gas in the U.K. or any licensing or planning authority wishing to let them has to consider the

One subsidy leads to another. One windfall tax soon becomes several permanent tax rises on overtaxed energy. One price distortion tempts Regulators to do more. Instead of pursuing the three aims of