16 November

Two things to see here. One, the energy/climate debate is a fake debate. The entire industry already decided the answer years ago. It doesn’t matter whether your political team disagrees, it’s irrelevant. Second, the real reason energy prices got higher is that we privatised energy, decades ago. This turned us all into energy consumers, like we’re buying sneakers, or coffee. It also now means when the grid needs modernising, we all have to pay for it. It should always have been a public service, funded centrally, not by ordinary people. Governments can even ‘print’ money to pay for it, they don’t have to tax or borrow.