Better late than never, the government announces today it is going to press on with new power stations, to avoid the lights going out. Anyone going to place a bet on a contract signed and earth cut before the next election?

A Conservative government would allow a new nuclear power station to be opened every 18 months to address the threat of a power shortage according to Greg Clark, the shadow energy spokesman.

We had the power all in the wrong place - too concentrated, too many bankers with monopoly power. Sunder Katwala, Fabian Society. There wasn’t a monopoly in banking. Far from it. And how can "too many people" have monopoly power anyway?

  The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselve...

A Tory government would restore "real people power" to address public rage fuelled by the MPs' expenses scandal, Opposition leader David Cameron pledged today.

Nowhere has the government let us down more than in the area of power generation. We have falling to bits Britain on the roads and at the power socket. We have carried on trading on our old nuclear power stations in

THE SNP has claimed that a move by Scotland's biggest energy company to pull out of a consortium to build a controversial new nuclear power station is a "vindication&

Belgium's political parties have reached a conditional agreement to shut down the country's two remaining nuclear power stations, owned by GDF Suez unit Electrabel, a government spokeswoman said earlier this week. More »

This is a guest post by a Harry’s Place reader Towards the end of her anti-Obama rant, Melanie Phillips writes the following: Most revolting of all is Samantha Power, a very close adviser whom Obama fired for calling Hillary a ‘monster’ but who says she still expects to be in Obama’s administration. Not only has Power has

In the Guardian's A woman's place series, Lesley Abdela laments the paucity of women in parliament. Eighty years on, the UK parliament rates 69th in the world league of women in parliament, one ignoble place below Cambodia. Women's representation in politics is not linked to whether a country is rich or poor. The US has 16.8%