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Scoop.it!
Blinded by ideology, the government is determined to pursue its own, self-defeating approach. Will it leave us all in the dark this winter? 
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Scoop.it!
Last week’s package shows how smart Tories are joining a growing economic trend
Graham Watson's insight:
Will Hutton's take on the government's volte face and apparent adoption of social democratic policies - in the context of what he perceives as a wider trend towards greater interventionism across the developed world.
Has the zeitgeist changed? Are well all social democrats/Keynesians now?
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Will Hutton's column looking at the government's handling of the energy crisis, unfavourably comparing it with that adopted in the US and continental Europe.
The £150bn energy support programme is, in his view, ill-thought out and unfair, and the government's apparent unwillingness to fund a £15m information campaign encouraging us to be more energy efficient mystifying, not least given that the CEO of Shell seems to assume that higher taxes on energy companies are inevitable.
It is a clash of world views - the interventionist versus the libertarian - and only time will tell which is the most appropriate approach.