A Nation of Great Import – Mark Hodgson

Ed Miliband keeps telling us that the UK is so important that it needs to lead the world towards net zero (apparently he believes we’re so important that the rest of the world will follow us over that cliff, despite all the evidence to the contrary). He also tells us that more renewable energy equates to greater energy security and to lower prices. In Programming the Public I noted that one of the co-presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Rare Earth, Helen Czerski, enthusiastically told the audience earlier this year that “there was this brilliant moment [my emphasis] last week where…87% of our electricity in the UK was coming at that moment from renewables.” https://cliscep.com/2025/08/25/a-nation-of-great-import/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMZgBBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjUCerf2E3qFbHdOtX3NT2lQhOMyiyQSsgZxRaAO2GdmVSPHeBPkfP9tNnxS_aem_5iTH0jzqzYGVWgHX8j2MZg