by Meme Dept.
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Richard Dearlove and the Rediscovery of British Industry
On the 18th September 2026, Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, gave a lecture to the Global Warming Policy Foundation. His subject was Energy Security: Blowing in the Wind. In this, he explains why a country that cannot reliably power its remaining industries, or manufacture the equipment needed to maintain its electricity supply, is in no position to conduct an independent foreign policy. The lecture deserves attention, though not the unqualified gratitude its author may have expected.
His central complaint is well expressed:
“I do not think that the government has a proper energy policy. Perhaps it has a climate policy.”
This is a distinction that ought to have been obvious long before it
became suitable material for a lecture by a retired intelligence chief.
An energy policy concerns the provision of reliable power at prices that
allow people to live comfortably and businesses to produce things
profitably. A climate policy may subordinate both purposes to targets
whose achievement is celebrated even when production has simply moved
abroad. The emissions disappear from our accounts. The factories
disappear from our towns. We then import what those factories once
produced and congratulate ourselves on our progress.
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