The UN, the EU and now even NATO now represent soft power. The idea is that dialogue and reason will solve all international crisis. Rusia represents hard power - it sends in the military. I now read that the Georgian city of Gori was slowly coming back to life yesterday, a day after the Russian troops that had occupied the city for more than a week pulled out. But the signs were that Russia and t...

  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...

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

EDF has finally bought out British Energy, laying the foundations for the construction of a next generation of nuclear power plants. I think this is excellent news both for Britain's future prosperity and in the battle against global warming. We had a big debate about this in an earlier thread, but given that the consensus on the progressive left seems to be against nuclear power, I think its...

Forwarded to me by Paddington, an article that gives us hope for future energy production and the continuance of the civilisation we're used to: A new approach to nuclear fusion means that in a few years time nuclear fusion will break even. Bearing in mind that our ‘preferred’ power choices of solar power, windmills etc. have to be heavily subsidised before people will even look a...

INTERESTING to read that the future of coal-fired power generation in Europe was called into question yesterday after a European Parliament committee backed new laws that would force power companies to pay for all of their carbon dioxide emissions from 2013. The decision, which could cost the power industry €30 billion (£23 billion) a year and trigger a steep rise in electricity bills, ...

New polling sheds some light both on where the public stand in terms of different power options, and on the impact of arguments that make nuclear seem more attractive. At a basic level, nuclear power is currently pretty much the least popular form of power generation in the UK.

Government under pressure to ban new coal power plants not equipped with carbon capture technology

We are seeing a real confrontation between two kinds of power. One is elected parliamentary power, represented by the Treasury team and No 10. The other is the power of finance capital. London is a citadel for both kinds of power, British-state and global-economic. So it’s not surprising that the confrontation is happening here. The trigger for

SCOTLAND cannot rely on renewable energy alone and must turn to nuclear power to safeguard future electricity production, the Scottish Secretary said yesterday.