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UKIP makes the case that the EU is wrecking the UK energy supply, making it expensive and unreliable. This a party political piece rather than something designed for the Brexit campaign per se.

The BBC has interviewed an eyewitness to the Guardian mob attack on Nigel Farage and has confirmed the accuracy of the original reports:

The news that UKIP leader Nigel Farage and his family were attacked in a pub this afternoon would be interesting enough at the best of times, but for BH readers there are many other angles that attract attention besides the...

There will be much happiness in UKIP circles today, with the announcement that Messrs Cameron, Miliband and Clegg are to sign a joint declaration on climate change, a move which has been brokered by green NGOs.

UKIP seem to be perservering in their opposition to the UK's insane climate and energy policies, according to an article in Prospect magazine.

The news that UKIP have topped the polls for the European Parliament is clearly of great moment, and it's worth considering for a moment whether the party's energy and climate change policies have played any part in the victory...

Image via Shutterstock Chances are, if you have owned more than one mobile phone in your life there is a drawer in your home dedicated to a collection of defunct chargers...

Image via Shutterstock Chances are, if you have owned more than one mobile phone in your life there is a drawer in your home dedicated to a collection of defunct chargers...

Ukip and France's Front National are closer than the former will admit, says Marine Le Pen. Is this true? Both are led by funny, attractive, charismatic leaders who have had quite enough of the usual politicking by the usual...

The Tyndall Centre's Radical Emissions Reduction conference has garnered quite a lot of attention in recent days, and I'm pleased to say that slides and audio of the presentations are now available.

Just how stupid does Lynton Crosby think we are? Very, very, VERY stupid, I'm guessing. And perhaps he's right. As part of his ongoing campaign to make the Conservatives more electable, he's inviting us to experience the...

"When we believe something – we don’t go 'are you thinking what we’re thinking'. We say it out loud." I like this line from Nigel Farage's UKIP conference address. My Spectator colleague Fraser Nelson thinks the  speech...

Have you been to Bongo Bongo Land? I have – but only in Tintin and dogeared copies of Sanders of the River and the fabulous Deborah Kerr and Stewart Grainger version of King Solomon's Mines...

So you're a Tory backbench MP and you chose your career path not for the money (well not unless you're, say, Tim Yeo) but for the cause. You believe in free markets, personal responsibility, rewards for hard work, lower taxes,...

"No one benefits if politicians are forever worrying about what some chippy, resentful git might think about their salary or their travelling first class," I wrote in my Spectator column this week...