Captured and Stalled

Although Labour may have abandoned the twenty-nine-billion climate pledge on the grounds that it was a pledge, that doesn't mean there is no more money; oh dear me no. In the accustomed Team Starmer spirit of change, the Government will be spending more than three-quarters of that amount on a BP-approved continuation of Conservative energy policy. Encouragingly, the major fossil fuels profiteers have all increased their construcive input over the past year or two, while tree-huggers, scientists and other antisemitic influences have been largely marginalised. Last month a few such pariahs warned that the policy would allow corporations to continue destroying the climate in the name of an unproved technology; although to their credit they were impartial enough to point out the overriding advantage that the taxpayer would be covering the cost.