They think nothing of gathering on a Cornish beach for a barbecue while the rest of us risk £10,000 fines for doing the same

I have to admit that I didn’t quite get it right when, 12 days ago, I wrote: ‘There is a model for what will be coming our way if we do not resist vaccination passports and electronic ID cards:...

The left-wing think tank Autonomy has announced a pilot scheme by which 30 volunteers will receive £1,600 a month for two years

It is impossible to justify continuing emergency powers when deaths are falling and the evidence on vaccines keeps getting better

If Banksy’s works are to be welcomed by officialdom, local authorities should be happy to allow others to try their hand at street art too.

An uptick in cases hasn't been matched by an increase in deaths. It's about time we had a more intelligent conversation about risk

The bloc is backtracking on its plan to ban combustion engines. It's time for Britain to follow suit

Just why is Chris Skidmore’s review into the government’s target to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 called an ‘independent’ review?

Is the Government slyly using Covid as an opportunity to wean us off foreign holidays in the hope of achieving its net zero targets?

Like a football tournament with an official beer, COP26 had an official energy provider: the Griffin wind farm in Perthshire, operated by SSE. Trouble is that for much of the conference it was not...

While he burdened the UK with his net zero nonsense, Beijing used coal energy to power ahead

The Crucible protest has exposed these eco-fanatics for what they really are: attention grabbers lacking in any real ideology

Oxford plans to install six ‘electronic gates’ in the city, policed by automatic number plate recognition cameras and backed up with fines.

If anyone was still in doubt as to why the government wants us to use smart meters, those doubts will surely now be dispelled by Ofgem.

There is no such thing as a ‘National Insurance Fund’ and there never has been. It is simply another form of income tax

If there is one country which has influenced the government’s toughening of Covid restrictions over the past fortnight it is Belgium. It was Sophie Wilmes’ government which, faced with a resurgence...

Ed Miliband set Labour back a decade when he not only failed to win the 2015 general election but went backwards, losing a net 26 seats and helping to usher in the disastrous era of Jeremy Corbyn....

It is partly thanks to environmental groups that he can threaten to cut off Europe’s gas supply unless we pay him in roubles

Imagine if we gave the rail unions what they really wanted, and renationalised the railways. Would they then leave us alone and get on quietly with the job of driving trains, clipping tickets and so...

We keep being told that it will continue to get cheaper. Now the truth has been revealed

‘Speechless,’ was Matt Hancock’s reaction when told about Professor Neil Ferguson’s lockdown breaching liaisons on 6 May last year. The Health Secretary added that he thought Ferguson was right to...

Britain loves bunnies and hedgehogs, but it's not going to be impressed if left shivering

ROSS CLARK: Few slogans in political history can have caused as much anger as 'We send the EU £350million a week - let's fund our NHS instead.'

The proportion of sales made up by EVs has fallen. People simply don’t want to buy them

Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK, DeSmog can reveal. A new analysis by this website...

To avoid the health service becoming overwhelmed, cancers went undetected and heart attacks untreated

Never mind what climate change will do to rainfall. We are building on sites doomed to flood even with the climate we already have

The failure to have an honest debate about climate change has squeezed out one vital fact – the Government's targets will leave us poorer

Across Europe, 72 gigawatts-worth of gas plants are being built, as nations realise you cannot power a national grid on solar and wind alone

The real world data doesn’t support the catastrophist narrative when it comes to what is to blame for the Canadian wildfires

His rackety life and faked death, as portrayed in a new ITV drama, seems almost quaint compared with the brazenness of MPs today

The government's hydrogen plans will add £120 to our bills. But that's just the tip of the iceberg

We have spent a year talking about energy security, but with inflation in food prices running at 19 per cent, how much longer before the debate turns to food security? Ideally, we would have policies...

Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)

Beware data that is released on the eve of a Commons vote on lockdown restrictions. That was the lesson of the graph presented by Sir Patrick Vallance at the Downing Street press briefing on 31...

When is the government going to stop pretending that chopping down trees in North American forests and shipping them across the Atlantic to burn them in UK power stations is a zero-carbon form of...

The Pacific rim has become an arc of introversion – of countries which face lingering economic damage as they shut themselves away

The apologetic, perfunctory police response to the activists' provocations says much about what is wrong with Britain today

Expensive and unreliable, heat pumps are a nightmare for consumers. It’s little wonder the government has resorted to bribes

Britain has created the most hostile environment in the world for ordinary travellers. But COP26 attendees are getting a free pass

Manufacturers are under the zero emissions mandate (ZEV), which demands that 22 per cent of the cars they sell are pure electric cars.

The Government simply hasn’t thought through its net zero strategy – and we could end up paying through the nose to live in chillier homes

Decades of hard-won progress have been lost as 'education, education, education' was replaced with 'Covid, Covid, Covid'

Even in Manchester, hospitals are faring far better than the headline statistics suggest

The rebellion of 26 Conservative MPs against the government’s zero electric vehicle (ZEV) mandate couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Prime Minister. The ZEV will compel manufacturers to...

The long read: While the world becomes drier, profit and pollution are draining our resources. We have to change our approach

For once, yesterday’s Downing Street press conference included a worthwhile question, and not of the ‘why aren’t you locking us down?’ variety. In fact, it had nothing to do with Covid at all. Harry...

From heat pumps to new bins, the government keeps trying to force unworkable technologies and environmental wheezes on an unimpressed public

Why is flooding in Germany being blamed on climate change, when climate models predicted less rain in summer

The West has foolishly deprived itself of the option of unleashing an all-our economic war on Putin’s regime

It is shocking that decisions affecting thousands of jobs and millions of lives were taken on the basis of dubious, incomplete evidence

Why does our government have so much trouble criticising China? It doesn’t seem to have had a problem calling out Vladimir Putin. But Downing Street – along with the rest of Whitehall – seems...

With little acquired immunity and low vaccination rates, New Zealand finds itself vulnerable to an explosive epidemic

How many people have to die before the authorities use their common sense and scrap this innovation?

Surge pricing could soon be introduced on smart meters for customers at companies like British Gas. The price to consumers could be high.

Big tech is ruthlessly exploiting the Covid crisis to make us even more dependent on their products

I’m no apologist for oligarchs, whether they be from Russia or anywhere else. I have been writing for years about how dirty money was flooding into London’s property market, helping to price out...

If you report on every extreme event and throw in the term 'climate change', you will very rapidly plant the idea that the world is in some freakish transformation.

It wasn’t so long ago that Orsted was being held up as an example of how oil and gas companies should handle the transition to clean energy. In 2009 the then-DONG (Danish Oil and Natural Gas)...

Following this morning’s warning by Imperial College scientists that immunity from Covid-19 is "waning quite rapidly" in the population as levels of antibodies fade, it would be rude to point out...

The BBC's responses to editorial, technical and corporate issues.

They mark a return to government bungling after the remarkable success of the vaccination programme

Rewarding workers who sailed through lockdown when the economy is shrinking is sheer folly

 It is gradually dawning on people that in spite of the rapid rollout of vaccines, many restrictions are likely to remain

This winter's energy crisis will give us a foretaste of what a world without cheap energy looks like

Britain is being singled out for a travel ban because we are actively looking for variants where others are not

It is 'code red for humanity,' according to UN general-secretary Antonio Guterres. But is the United Nations' report on climate change anything to worry about?