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6 days agoBoth left and right are deluding themselves about the scale of the energy crisis Britain faces | Ewan Gibbs
The roots of the crisis lie in a succession of choices made between the 1980s and 2010s, when British governments eschewed concern over control and ownership of our energy supplies. Selling coal to Newcastle went from an idiom meaning a pointless action to a commercial reality as Britain privatised its strategic energy industries, decimated domestic capacity and opened up to the international market.
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