Backdoors and vetoes: New security powers will fatally undermine your privacy MATT SINCLAIR When your new security law might undermine secure communications and data privacy, something has probably gone wrong, writes Matt Sinclair
As National Grid warns of a winter electricity capacity squeeze, is UK energy policy to blame? Matthew Sinclair, an economist and author of Let Them Eat Carbon, says Yes. The UK’s energy sector used to do quite a good job of delivering affordable and reliable energy. Politicians then made a number of interventions which increased costs and reduced reliability. First came obstacles to the construction of new coal capacity, then the [...]