Yes, of course, it’s wholly correct to have some empathy for those who are to lose their jobs and incomes here.

Ridding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous process and, in the current political era, one that can seem to be in full retreat.

Over the last century, British society has shifted, from a brave and risk-taking society, to one relying on a paternalistic state to guarantee success, safety, and mediocrity.

Beauty must be a priority for new council homes to avoid a repeat of the “eyesore” housing estates of the 1960s, a report has said.

As Adam Smith said, “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

We do - no, really, we do - grasp the point of recycling.

The pronunciation of "off" as "awf" is a posh-ism that's been fading for a while now.

As we all know from South Park the Underpants Gnomes work on:

Chinese copies of Western designs are well known, including the C919 passenger jet that seems uncannily similar to the Airbus 320 family and the Boeing 737.

Britain’s biggest oil and gas producer is axing investment in the UK and diverting cash to countries including Norway after Labour’s windfall taxes left it with an 111pc tax rate.

There is a strong case for saying that since late last century China and the West have helped each other.

On Thursday, the completion of the $8bn buyout of Paramount by Hollywood minnow Skydance Media marked a seismic shift in the US media landscape.