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You're talking about a doubling in household electricity prices.

I understand where it comes from at the sort of dark green level that it sees man as a curse upon the planet.

I genuinely am baffled by the political class.

They're being swept up in this.

It is a kind of moral vanity.

I think it is the sense that when we walk on the world stage we want

to be seen as the good guys and of course it's very nice for them to go to these

conferences and people to say oh you're doing a wonderful job, you know, of course doesn't mean anything

for the people back home.

Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill.

This is a podcast in which an esteemed guest joins me to talk about the big ideas, the bad ideas,

the problems and the controversies of life in the early 21st century.

In this episode I'm delighted to be joined by Dominic Lawson.

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