Which Side Are You On?

At midnight, the misnamed energy price cap will go up by a whopping 10 per cent even though wholesale prices have come down, and a country standing on a thousand years' worth of coal, the world leader in clean coal technology until something happened 40 years ago, will become the first major economy to stop burning it. These two developments are not unconnected.

Connected to both is the downgrading of Port Talbot to a glorified recycling plant for steel from India, where it will of course have been produced in blast furnaces, as Britain continued its progress towards becoming the only G7 state without the basic sovereignty and security of a domestic steel industry. Margaret Thatcher said that her greatest achievement was New Labour. She was right.