Chris Snowdon

Nov 1, 2024 | iea.org.uk | Kristian Niemietz |Chris Snowdon

This is the first in a series of articles about how ideological interest groups react when their institutional preferences are challenged by practical solutions. The Department of Health and Social Care says that obesity costs the NHS ‘up to £6.5 billion a year’. The health secretary Wes Streeting has claimed that it costs the NHS £11 billion a year.

Jan 19, 2024 | iea.org.uk | Kristian Niemietz |Chris Snowdon

The electricity generator  Drax is not an easy company to love. It doesn’t help that it shares a name with a James Bond villain. People who are terrified of climate change hate it and people who don’t care about climate change hate it. It used to burn a lot of coal and now it burns a lot of wood. Critics say it might as well have kept burning coal. At least that would be cheaper. Burning imported wood pellets creates a similar amount of greenhouse gas emissions as coal and much more than natural gas.