I am doing exciting research on the energy crisis. The energy crisis aligns three societal objectives in one policy dimension – energy savings – which, help save money through resulting lower energy bills, contribute to saving the environment through lower CO2 emissions and at the same time, provides material national security benefits by blunting Putin’s …
‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme drove new COVID-19 infections up by between 8 and 17%, new research finds. The government initiative, which cost around £500 million, caused a significant rise in new infections in August and early September accelerating the pandemic into its current second wave. The economic benefits of the scheme, meanwhile, were …
I become increasingly sceptical of much of UK polling. There appears to be a very strange disconnect. Eurobarometer polling suggests that attitudes to the EU, if anything, appear to have become more pro-European in the run up to the EU referendum — the share of respondents stating EU membership is a good thing peaked in …
The 2019 European Election in the UK was the European Election that was not meant to be held. The inability of the Conservative Party to arrive at a consensus view on Brexit that commands a majority in parliament has resulted in the legal need to hold the EU elections — and, to many observers unsurprisingly, …