Broad Oak Magazine

(Ed.) Ironically. just as well-meaning activists are pushing pension funds to disinvest in oil companies, the latter could be leading the wa...

Some years ago on a sister blog to Broad Oak I wrote several posts noting how problematic was the rise in erratic forms of electricity gener...

As the statue-rollers do their bit to help capitalism collapse under its self-contradictions, one should have thought the PC response to ene...

Yesterday, ' Wiggia' outlined some of the problems with 'zero carbon' energy .  Here is energy market expert Nick Drew'...

Somebody (Lenin?) said that communism is soviet power plus electrification.  Or something like that.  And there's no doubt communist Rus...

Our host asked me to pen this piece - and even came up with the title ... [BSD is © Nick Leeson - Ed.] He'd seen reference to how N...

Recently, Nick Drew of Capitalists@Work introduced us to an essay in The New Enquiry entitled "The Scapegoating Machine" ( http:/...

An excellent long-range thinkpiece by Nick at Capitalistsatwork , looking at the energy landscape in the wake of the closure of the UK's...

Wherever you look, 21st century energy policy has been hatched by people who know far less than they need to about the subject in hand. It...

As part of the government's blitz of 'look what we're doing' announcements, we now have " Britain to become first non-...

Under foreign flags Readers may be aware that I am generally untroubled by inward investment and foreign ownership of UK assets, though ...

Source: Wiki (see terms of use) You can always get me along to an exhibition of an artist with a clear world-view, even if it's not ...

For most of the time we are all capable of sailing serenely on in ignorance of how fundamentally our world-views differ from those of ot...

This, by Jonathan Franzen in Saturday week's Grauniad review , is the best essay I have read for several months.  Based on his translat...

Balcombe Blame Rests Here Or rather, the coffin of his reputation as a strategist. Oh yes, it's been dead awhile, stone dead.  But...

An interesting thing happened last month. The Oil Drum , a well-regarded website + blog, announced it was ceasing operations and archiving...

Following hard on his purposeful assault on Michael Fallon two weeks ago , the redoubtable Andrew Neil had a go at Ed Davey this time around...

It is hard to know where begin a post on UK energy policy just now, though I feel vaguely obliged to try. Last week there were flurries of ...