All Episodes
Helm Talks - energy climate infrastructure & more — 97 episodes
Reversing Brexit, not quite as easy as some people think
Why Can't Britain Build?
Energy realism: why energy costs are a very British crisis
The politics of the long grass
Some new faces, same old problems
Hotter Days
Beyond the nationalisation slogan
Why can't we build infrastructure in this country?
Crisis? What crisis?
Britain's negative-sum society
No such thing as free electricity
Sticky plaster energy policy is falling apart
Gas prices, gas mistakes and gas policy
Britain's industrial energy price crisis
The energy security gap
Back to the 1950s
What nationalisation really means
2030
Five reasons why growth is so elusive
The real lessons from COP30
The great capital maintenance failure
Locking in permanently high costs for British energy
Why is UK infrastructure so expensive?
Water: what to do after Cunliffe?
Why electricity prices are so high and why renewables are not cheap
The changing net zero zeitgeist
Fiddling the books on debt
The dark economic clouds revisited
Thames Water – the unacceptable face of water privatisation
Heathrow Airport shutdown - a lesson in resilience
Defence versus net zero
Climate cakeism
Why are UK energy prices so high?
Crossing the Rubicon – what it really takes to grow an economy
Energy costs and economic growth
The great COP-out
The UK’s new growth industry – regulation
Transformation – a case of blood, sweat, tears … and many years
Britain's four fundamental economic problems
Zombie utilities
Dash for growth means dash for debt
The free-lunch election
Privatisation casualties piling up
Fudging the fiscal rules
Failing utilities – is special administration the solution?
Fiddling the figures – iron fiscal rules are not what they seem
Three energy policies
Network Rail, Royal Mail, and Thames Water - three failing utilities
Territorial carbon emissions don’t tell the full story – the cases of Grangemouth and DRAX
The remarkable net zero political consensus – and why it's wrong
Net zero realism
The Treasury blame game
Why does everything seem to be broken?
Labour's big bet on economic growth
Beggars can't be choosers
Net zero crunch time
Borrowing to save the planet
Parallel universes - climate science versus climate reality
Getting real about Britain’s contribution to tackling global warming
The great subsidy game
Labour's five missions
The UK privatisation experiment - a success or not?
The consequences of living beyond our means
Where is the money coming from for investment?
Gas next winter - no need to panic
Greta Thunberg was right about COP27
COP27 – it's all about the money
What happens if gas prices continue to fall?
The Retreat From Net Zero, And How To Stop It
Windfall taxes are a mark of energy policy failures
How to pay for energy
Paying too much for energy
Sustainable farming and net zero – a long way to go
Don't bank on energy prices falling any time soon
The first net zero energy crisis
Are the wheels falling off the electricity model?
COP26 – progress or just more blah, blah, blah?
The gas and the electricity price crisis - fundamental causes and big consequences
Do electricity prices really need to go up?
Net zero and greenwashing electricity
The EU leads on climate change – again
COP26 – time to get real about fossil fuels
Net zero: keeping our homes warm without frying the planet
Trade - is free trade fair?
Net zero - why we need a carbon border tax
COP26 - too much hype, too little substance
Net zero - is economic growth possible?
What is a carbon offset worth?
Bespoke carbon taxes - should beef and dairy be singled out?
Net zero gain - how to build better
How green is the government really?
Net zero policy in 2,000 pages
How much is it going to cost to meet the net zero target?
Net zero, green recovery and green industrial revolution plans – what's in a number?
COP 26 and global climate agreements - will they work?
Nature-based solutions to climate change
Carbon pricing and carbon taxes - an essential part of a net zero strategy