I like Boris. I really do.  In fact all my family are fans.  One of my three year old’s favourite books is Calm down Boris – about a messy-haired, friendly monster that goes round causing mischief.  Following the London mayoral elections in 2008 a bookseller set up a stand outside City Hall and shifted hundreds of copies. 

A commitment to deliver an annual energy statement ‘to set strategic energy policy and guide investment’ was a key plank of the coalition government’s energy policy. In a flurry of new consultations, calls for evidence and publications, the first statement was delivered today.

The final day before the start of the summer parliamentary recess would be the perfect occasion to rehash and reannounce old initiatives – so is that what has happened, or am I being over-cynical?

Not to get all Freudian, but to understand bloggers, it is good to start with our motivations for blogging. There is such an amazing mountain range of blogs, yet there is a common thread. (Hint: it’s Passion.)

 Now this is clever. Get the actor most associated with oil to front an ad campaign for solar energy.

J.R.Ewing

Launching last week, SolarWorld make quite a splash with an ad fronted by Mr Oil Baron himself, J.R. Ewing. The ad campaign, with Larry Hagman’s most famous alter ego, has proved a coverage generating hit getting a largely positive and amused response to his perceived u-turn. http://tinyurl.com/33rxxa7

Things are looking bleak. As the Government continues to predict that it will become ‘the greenest ever’, it is increasingly realising that – as Liam Byrne so eloquently put it – ‘there is no money left’.